The Scian Melt
The third instalment of the Scientific India (The Scian) Melt is here, and will be hosted by me.
For those not in the know, here’s a small introduction. From the Scian Melt page -
Inspired by the wonderful carnivals around the blogosphere, The Scientific Indian brings you its own version. We would like to introduce you to The Scian Melt, a fortnightly showcase of good weblogging about Science and India.
For a hang of how this works, check out the earlier melts
October 20, 2004 Rathodics
October 6, 2004 The Scian Blog
Submissions
To participate in The Scian Melt, send in your entry to melt[at]thescian.com with “The Melt” somewhere in your subject line, or mail it to me at chandrachoodan[at]gmail[dot]com.
Give a permalink to your weblog post and a short description of your post. Go on, be vain!
As long as the post isn’t just a collection of links, send in any thing to do with science and India. Nominate other posts, by other authors too.
The Melt will be on on the Sunday, 21st of November, 2004.
Crackpot Theory #56
All scriptures, religions and belief systems (especially the Indian flavour) make a big issue of salvation, of being one with the GOD. Of the glorious days that await us in “heaven”, where it’s difficult to say where we end and god begins.
They point to the way forward, of struggle and penance and meditation and hardwork and virtue. Of being simple and honest and dare i mention joyless. They say that to be one with god, I need to renounce all my worldly pleasures and be a simple hermit. Man, in fact, needs to be devolved. Has to renounce whatever he has fought for all these years.
But what if the scriptures weren’t the way forward, but more the story of evolution? What if they were records of the way taken to be where we are? Why not look at religion and scriptures and holy books as historical records? Instead of -man fighting hard to be simple and renouncing worldly pleasures in order to see god and be one with him, why couldn’t it be backwards – single cell amoeba to first signs of life on the surface to primates to home erectus to homo sapiens?
What if the god and the supreme state of oneness was our first stage of life? What if Unity was actually that first Cell?
Repeat
Open road not often this free bike heaving pulling at the leash impatient to go thoughts fly faster tangents and unconnected multiple streams of ideas and fears and expectations and words merging and splitting away to merge back again site needs redesigning a trip cancelled another didn’t materialise need reading up on sanga literature need to fuel up there’s one around the bend haven’t come up with a decent headline in ages portfolio needs tweaking damn that car was close thank god good brakes what do I hear big crash somebody’s hurt bad must be bleeding crazy hey the sky’s a nice shade of magenta
Final Design
Alrighty then, let’s see some action on this blog. Been damn, damn busy, and swamped under work and all that. Plus, am trying to stay as far away from the net as possible for this week and the next.
But just a quick word to let you know about the recent changes at Selective Amnesia.
Ponniyin Selvan
Oh My GOD! Kalki, folks, ought to be resurrected and made to write another million books like Ponniyin Selvan. Or at-least, another Ponniyin Selvan.
Building a huge epic around random political events 980 years into the past connecting them all up, staying oh so believably within the realms of truth, yet, great big flights of imagination requires skill beyond the normal.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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