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they could have won the war in 2 years instead of losing the war in 20. all they had to do was target the taliban leadership in pakistan instead of their foot soldiers in the vast …

This. I think the best way for you to ensure funding is to have revenue traction. One thing that trumps ageism (and all --isms) is greed. If you show revenue growth and traction, t…

Being downvoted. Let me correct myself, HN: all discoveries have been made by white people. These discoveries have been made in the last 6000 years, the only time that this univers…

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The Hindu mathematicians Baudhāyana certainly discovered the theorem before Pythagoras [1] and Bhāskarāchārya independenly proved the theorem [2] (though the latter seems it was af…

Agreed with ummonk. This is not a pre-colonial issue. This is an issue of colonial-era politics. The dating of many Indian texts was performed by European indologists who were fund…

Here's some evidence: "The Baudhāyana Sulba Sūtra states the rule referred to today in most of the world as the Pythagorean Theorem." "The Baudhāyana sūtras are a group of Vedic Sa…

Here's some evidence: "The Baudhāyana Sulba Sūtra states the rule referred to today in most of the world as the Pythagorean Theorem." "The Baudhāyana sūtras are a group of Vedic Sa…

A lot of math theorems might have been stolen / 'appropriated' from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_school_of_astronomy_and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation

Colonized Indians need to take control of their history like the Chinese did. Otherwise the appropriators will continue to have a field day.

Downvoting your post. Here on HN, we believe all worthwhile discoveries were made by white people plus a handful of races whose markets we're trying hard to break into.

i find that these extremist Tamils are pretty arrogant for such an ugly people.

True. HN isn't the right place for this flame war.

'Indian' is the same as 'Bharatiya'[1], which is as old as human civilization gets. And I agree with OP that Sanskrit should be revived in India like the Jews did for Hebrew in Isr…

you're just upset because the LTTE terrorist organization was wiped out.

exactly. HN threads about india tend to take a warped eurocentric view. which makes sense.