Bad Things That British Taught Us and We Still
Follow:
1) Eating
With Spoon:
Before British came the whole of
India ate with hands. Eating with hands has extreme advantages, the most
important among it is that eating with hands ensures personal hygiene as the
person washes his hands more often than he would otherwise …… second, eating
with spoon is unhygienic as one spoon is used by many people and it enters the
mouth and touches organs like teeth , gums and tongues which are loaded with
spit and bacteria. Science has shown that these bacteria are very much alive
even after washing the spoon and if we need to clean them then we gotta boil
the spoon in water for 10 mins which we never do.
Imagine, when you go to hotel u are
going to use a spoon which has spit bacteria of at least a 10000 men. Yuk….Better
eat with hands next time.
2) Drinking
“Bhains ka doodh” :
I know that Indians are very much
obsessed with the Bhains Ka dhoodh but we are absolutely unaware that before British
rule we drank only cow milk. Now when britts came to India they wanted cow meat
and hence they taught or rather compelled Indians to drink bhains ka doodh…
This milk is extremely fatty and
makes u dumb….On the other hand cow milk is very healthy and makes u
intelligent…the whole of Europe refuses to drink buffaloes milk and drinks cow
milk even today.
3) No
Yoga…Only PT:
When British started ruling India ,
Within just a few years they got a heavy resistance from Indians and they
thought that if they have to rule India they need to destroy their very basic value
system and YOGA was the pillar of Indian Value System.
Hence all the schools which were a
part of British India were asked to stop teach Yoga and start teaching PT or
Physical Training. This we still follow and rejoice. However a few schools have
realized this and started teaching Yoga to their students yet again.
The irony is that British advocated
and taught Yoga in England, but banned it in India.
4) Fake
History:
Now in this case British are not
the only one to be blamed…cause it was French, Moghals, Portugese combined who
took many of our inventions and credited non Indians for it.
Arabs
invented glass: That’s the first fake, the caves of
Badami have carvings which clearly show women holding mirrors. These carvings
are much older than Arab civilization itself
Pythagoras
discovered the hypotenuse formula: Well it is now a fact
believed by many people that baudhayana had put forward the same theorem in 800
BCE that is much before the birth of Pythagoras
British
Invented Airplanes:
Anekal
subbaraya Shastri, an indian man invented 5 types of airplanes in late 1900s
using the knowledge of vedas. Bapuji talpade of Mumbai received this technology
from him and prepared & successfully flew one of the five types of airplane
using mercury vapors and solar energy as fuel in Mumbai in 1895 but, the then
rulers of India, the British, suppressed this intention
There
are many more things to it but you will have to wait for the next time I post.
Till then realize our rich culture and try to live like a Indian and not as a
British cause you are not.
