COMPILED BY SANJIV TANEJA "A must to see"
Agricultural Science Museum, you can follow the evolution of agriculture in India A touch of a button and there's thunder and lightning. And then there is rain. Water evaporates from the ground, clouds form and rain follows. After a 20-second downpour, everything goes quiet. Then, suddenly, there's a rainbow. This is not a lesson from a child's science book: it's a practical demonstration of a water cycle at the National Agricultural Science Museum in Delhi. Spread over 23,000 sq ft, and set in the lush grounds of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Pusa, this museum inaugurated in 2004, is a specially designed building that documents the development of agriculture in India from prethe -historic period to the modern era. Upholding Jawaharlal Nehru's view that "everything can wait but not agriculture", this two-storey building houses 150 exhibits displayed in 10 sections with the purpose of providing a detailed understanding of the state of agriculture in India.
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Rita Miller
4/29/2017 06:55:22 am
I spent hours reading historical information about how in the world the British Empire managed to " take over", at least as the governing body in India as well as parts of Africa, specifically, South Africa. Unbelievable!! This research was prompted by watching the movie, " Gandhi" , about a gazillion times. I am American, as we are a melting pot, that could mean I have all sorts of genetic beginnings, not from India as far as I can ascertain. The movie and more importantly,reading, all the historical information my eyes could handle, made me so angry!! The British have accumulated a tremendous amount wealth through the centuries from India. They did this the old fashion, dishonest way, they stole it! We aren't talking a few hundred thousands of dollars, including all in museums on British soils, we are talking MILLIONS!
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Sanjiv Taneja
4/30/2017 02:43:08 am
Dear Rita I am very happy to find that you have taken such a keen interest in this small endeavor of mine posted here. Firstly, I would like to tell you that my favorite teacher from my school i.e Rosary School was also Ms. Rita Kapoor, thus it gives me great pleasure to read such an engaging comment from you. I had gone to the museum but after seeing the Ashokan rock edict, I stopped there to click these photographs and find out more about the exhibits. The Indian Agricultural Museum tries to recover the Indian agricultural practices even before the Vedic times making it a landmark in extracting a pre-history of events as you rightly pointed. There are various versions to history which require us to do a lot of ground work so that we can unearth and piece even those fragments together. This was only a small chapter that through your encouraging and analytical comment received a much wider scope of discussion. I will try and keep exploring more of such landmarks and unveiling such chapters that can create a dialogue about our multiple histories. Even we as Indians have absorbed a lot of British influence but to see these conjoined histories at work is what intrigues me. Thanks,not only for reading this post but for bringing such an engaging discussion to the table. I eagerly extend an invitation you to write something more on the topic and many other topics as well that have grabbed your attention and contribute even further to the discussion.
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