Following a foreword by Maneka Ghandi, a fellow animal-welfare friend, there are admiring quotes and qualifications about India’s importance and ingenuity from a cornucopia of philosophers, mathematicians, astrologers, politicians and literary greats spanning the last two millennia and the globe. Less well known Indian connections are demonstrated across time and distance, a 4,000 year old Vishnu statue was discovered in the Russian Village of Staraya Maina and in ancient India literature Russia is referred to as land of the Rishis (hence Russia). Mehta explains the true origins/meaning of Aryan people and their reach from Iran to Egypt, from Asia to Europe (and how Russian, Greek and German languages all have Sanskrit affiliations), contemporarily there are thriving Indian diasporas fitting in over the world, thanks to their highly enlightened philosophy of living.
Mehta came to Britain following Kenya’s independence in 1964 as for the Indian community who held British passports there were no jobs; Mehta arrived in UK in 1973 to start a new successful motor parts business.
After a journey through the arts of India, Mehta comes to the colonial wars of the C18th and how Indian heritage was distorted with perpetual misapprehension consequences to this day; he explains how India is indomitable,as the chapters on the Indian Renaissance and Indian contributions to the modern world make clear.
Mehta came to Britain following Kenya’s Independence in 1964 as for the Indian community who held British passports there were no jobs; Mehta arrived in UK in 1973 to start a new
Mehta is a proper Jain dharmic but not a silent devoted patriot, his book is not only a reminder of India’s past greatness and future innovative, economic, scientific and academic potential but a poke at those who have adopted a negative western influenced outlook towards India, de-facto defectors of Sanatan Dharma and Ahimsa.