Recently during our trip to Outer banks, North Carolina we visited the famous Kitty Hawk, Wright Brothers Memorial. Highly overwhelming and inspiring to stand on the spot where one of the world’s greatest inventions happened. The place is filled with heaps and heaps of will power and masses of determination. Do the men who were with the brothers know that they were witnessing the biggest leap of the mankind, I wonder. This space is very less to write my experience and words won’t carry the factual sensation I had. Anyway, the topic here is diffrent. More than the place I was so impressed with the way the information and evidences have been restored which enlightens the people after 100 yrs. Recently I saw a documentary in a channel about the entire Sultan’s reign and the important topic was about Rockets. Yes, the idea of Rockets and Missile originally came from Tipu Sultan. He was the first person to implement rocket artillery in wars and infact had written a manual on that called “Fathul Mujahidin”.

I was really amazed with the facts and wondered whether we have so much information preserved at his memorial in India. Similarly, here each and every calculus book , a page is devoted to Srinivas Ramanujam and his great part with Hardy towards integration theory. I remember reading about Ramanujam in some school history book. How many Math majors in our country are aware of his part as a genius who introduced the concept of Zero to the world.

These ideas might have not ended as an invention, but definitely had paved the way towards that. But really do we preserve, appreciate, maintain, restore the evidences and thus dutifully pass to the next generation about these greatest people of the nation. When some other country cherishes their values and ideas so much, shouldn’t we be doing little more for those.It is a question mark on the civic pride!

On this day..

• saudação - 2006