Notes of Nagesh

Introduction: The Disproportionate Engine of Wealth Consider a statistical anomaly that demands closer inspection: Jewish people represent approximately 0.2% of the global population—roughly 15 million out of nearly 8 billion human beings. In the United States, they account for around 2% of the population. Yet this tiny demographic accounts for more than 20% of all Nobel Prize winners in history and nearly one-third of American multi-millionaires. Beyond these figures, this population has consistently built enduring financial institutions and produced a disproportionate number of transformative business leaders, scientists, and scholars. When confronted with these numbers, popular discourse often drifts into lazy assumptions or outright malice. To evaluate this phenomenon accurately, one must explicitly reject false narratives: this is not the result of genetics, secret clubs, backroom deals, or shadowy conspiracies. The truth is far more practical, intellectually compelling, and u...

  The Rise of the Caste System:    Bhram Ka Pulinda     Bhram Ka Pulinda (भ्रम का पुलिंदा, roughly “A Bundle of Delusions”) is a Hindi-language polemic on ancient Indian history, published by Samyak Prakashan, New Delhi . The first edition appeared in 2021 (Buddhist Era 2565) and a second edition followed the same year. It runs to roughly 175 pages and was priced at ₹250 (ISBN 978-93-91503-14-7). The book argues that India’s original culture was a Buddhist-centered “Samyak culture,” and that a later priestly class rewrote history, language and religious vocabulary to make Brahmanical and Vedic tradition appear ancient. It moves through the Stone Age, the Indus Valley, the Mauryan, Shunga, Satavahana, Kushan, Gupta and Pala periods, and then the Mughal era, using photographs of inscriptions, coins and sculptures as its main evidence. Its recurring demand is that claimed ancient texts and authors be shown on stone or metal inscriptions. Its tone is combative, w...

  The Book Bhram Ka Pulinda (भ्रम का पुलिंदा, roughly “A Bundle of Delusions”) is a Hindi-language polemic on ancient Indian history, published by Samyak Prakashan, New Delhi . The first edition appeared in 2021 (Buddhist Era 2565) and a second edition followed the same year. It runs to roughly 175 pages and was priced at ₹250 (ISBN 978-93-91503-14-7). The book argues that India’s original culture was a Buddhist-centered “Samyak culture,” and that a later priestly class rewrote history, language and religious vocabulary to make Brahmanical and Vedic tradition appear ancient. It moves through the Stone Age, the Indus Valley, the Mauryan, Shunga, Satavahana, Kushan, Gupta and Pala periods, and then the Mughal era, using photographs of inscriptions, coins and sculptures as its main evidence. Its recurring demand is that claimed ancient texts and authors be shown on stone or metal inscriptions. Its tone is combative, with frequent insults aimed at its opponents, and it is better read ...

   The case of the missing stones A bestselling polemic says Panini, Chanakya and Kalidasa never existed. The evidence says otherwise Few things are as satisfying to a historian as an inscription. Carved in stone, dated by a king’s reign and impossible to quietly edit, it is the nearest the ancient past comes to a signed confession. A Hindi-language book that has found an eager readership, Bhram Ka Pulinda (“A Bundle of Delusions”), by Rajiv Patel, takes this respect for epigraphy and pushes it to an extreme. If a figure is not on a rock, he argues, he was not real. The test is applied with gusto. No Mauryan edict mentions Chanakya, the wily minister said to have made Chandragupta emperor. No stone records the grammarian Panini, the sage Patanjali or the poet Kalidasa. The surviving manuscripts of their works are on paper, and paper reached India via China and the Arabs. Mr Patel concludes that these men were “implanted” into the Buddhist-era past by a later priestly class, u...

India's opposition has found a cause that outrages the capital but leaves the countryside shrugging. Its problem is less the Election Commission than itself On October 10th police waded into journalists, students and activists who had gathered at Jantar Mantar, a protest ground in Delhi, to demand the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, the chief election commissioner. They also wanted an end to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, which the opposition says is a means of striking inconvenient voters off the list. The government responded by denotifying Jantar Mantar as a place to protest. Congress responded by vowing to take it back. A day of brutality has given the opposition its best publicity in a while. Will it matter at the ballot box? Ajay Gudavarthy, a political scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University, is doubtful. In a long interview with G. Sampath on In Focus , he argues that "vote chori" (vote theft) is still an issue for the educated and the...

  The Architecture of Lasting Wealth: 10 Timeless Principles for Building Prosperity Across Generations True wealth is not simply the accumulation of money. It is the creation of knowledge, relationships, opportunities, values, and systems that continue to generate prosperity long after their founders are gone. Introduction: Wealth Is a System, Not an Accident Why do some individuals and families build prosperity that lasts for generations, while others struggle to preserve wealth beyond a single lifetime? The answer often lies not in how much money they earn, but in how they think, learn, build relationships, manage opportunities, and transfer wisdom to the next generation. Sustainable wealth is rarely the result of a single extraordinary decision. Instead, it emerges from a collection of interconnected principles practiced consistently over time. These principles form what can be described as a Wealth Operating System —a framework that integrates intellectual growth, financial di...