Practical Thoughts

Dear Reader, With all that has been going on these past few years, do we not feel that we are in need of not just practical solutions but some enlightened leadership? From where might we obtain the most beneficial leadership? A few months ago, I wrote a piece that described the cultural debt that Europe and the western world, in general, owe India , However, I did not go into a discussion about how India influenced the whole of the Far East as well, as far as China and Indonesia. If I had then it is certain that India's past would appear as having been truly magnificent. And it was. India itself, in fact, once covered far more territory north, west and east of its current domain - far more, even, than the 19th c. map shows below.  There is an educated tendency to think that if that was so, that is pure history, that time has moved on and other world influences have taken over; that the India of old is pure history. And, that is how it might appear on the surface. The key matter is