Excelsior Correspondent
JOHANNESBURG, June 24: Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre today started an online series of lectures unfolding threadbare presentations on the contribution of India to the world.
The series is aimed at telling the world about the wondrous beauties of India where it stood the earliest cradle of ethics, arts, sciences and literature.
The first of the series was presented online over social media by Balwant Thakur, the Director of Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre who outlined the fields where India has contributed immensely. Referring to the recently concluded “International Day of Yoga” he said that art of Yoga was the biggest gift of India to the world and in the times of COVID-19 crisis.
“India has given to antiquity the earliest scientifically physicians and according to Sir William Hunter, India has even contributed to modern medical science by the discovery of various chemicals and by teaching you how to reform misshappen ears and noses,” he said and added that even more it has done in mathematics, for algebra, geometry, astronomy, and the triumph of modern science-mixed mathematics were all invented in India.
Thakur further said, “In music India gave to the world a system of notation with the seven cardinal notes and the diatonic scale, all of which we enjoyed as early as 350 BC while it came to Europe only in the eleventh century.”
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