The Future Castes

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Like my father, my Ph. D. guide SDM was born during the First World War and grew up during the Second. Having seen the Freedom Struggle and the ‘Made in Britain’ Bengal Famine, SDM was fiercely anti-racist and anti-colonial. But the only thing he was equipped to do in life was Research in Theoretical Physics. Other than this and a great talent for English he was as innocent as a babe in the woods throughout his life.

Soon after his marriage, SDM and his newly-wed bride were visiting his in-law’s village in charming rural Bengal. Having nothing else to do, he was pursuing an idea he had of finding a new class of solutions to the famous General Relativity Equations of Einstein. And while returning from an evening walk, he hit the jackpot. Coming home entirely flushed, he pulled his wife aside and ‘announced’ that her husband would soon be a ‘famous man’. (Upon which she chided him for returning so late after dusk and ordered him to quickly wash his hands and get ready for ‘sumptuous loochies’.)

On returning to Calcutta, he wrote up his ‘invention’ and, wanting to teach the ‘goras’ a lesson, submitted it to the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society just to show that Indian Science is no leaner and meaner than the Western.

To his bewilderment, his manuscript bounced from the Editor’s desk without as much as a ‘referee comment’. Disgusted, he sent it to the top class American Journal, Physical Review which accepted it without revision and published it urgently without the mandatory Abstract (the referee wrote it up himself!). Within a few months of its publication SDM did become a ‘famous man’ in Relativity circles and his outlandish work entered text books in no time.

Thereafter SDM never sent any of his papers to Indian Journals. To this day our Babu would promote only those candidates who publish in American Journals and trash all papers published in Indian Journals. This is God’s Truth. He would rather bring Harvard, Yale & MIT to India but not give academic and financial freedom to our own backyard IITs despite ‘intellectual’ hunger strikes.

SDM used to remark that the worth of any country is determined by the quality of its Physics Journals. And would say that China will never be any good because the ‘Acta Physica Sinica’ is worse than the ‘Indian Journal of Physics’.

During the Soviet regime USSR had the great good fortune of Landau and his school which lifted up the standards of Russian Physics Journals and also of the Communist East European nations like Poland and Czechoslovakia. The post-war Japan also had good Physics journals. I doubt if it is true nowadays.

All worthwhile Scientific Research and Invention continue to be American with crumbs thrown here and there…..none to India and China, which are boasting of becoming World Powers in the near future.

Yes; the US, Europe and Japan are turning out to be nations peopled by the old, the retired and the sick, while China and India will profusely breed young blood which can be exploited as ill-paid manufacturing and intellectual labor force. This advantage will certainly make them rich Economic Powers, but not Scientific Powers.

I will be watching from up there soon when the ‘New Caste System Among Nations’ (NCSAN) will be as follows:

1. The US will be the poor sick but learned Obama Brahmins. All other nations will take their intellectual inputs from the Navi Brahmins paying them a pittance other than great reverence.

2. China will be the New Khatriyas with their burgeoning arms and ammunitions and a vast army of Yellow Soldiers bereft of freedom and ideas but only taking orders from the Top Manchurian Kings and Mandarins.

3. India will be the New Baniyas, full of tricks to make money and invest it here and there to pile it up without paying their slave labor more than enough to keep their body and soul in ‘working’ condition.

4. Rest of the World will be Shudras, apart from:

5. Africa which will be the New SC.

6. Britain, Canada and Australia will turn Buddhist Dalit erecting statues of Newton and Hawking.

7. Shorn of oil revenue (the US will find alternate sources of Energy) the oil-rich Sheikdoms will vanish from the Earth like Dinosaurs having no new ideas how to cope with life apart from jihad.

This is the ‘Prediction of gps’, Allah be kind to his soul!

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