Shitala : How India Enabled Vaccination

Shitala : How India Enabled Vaccination

2021 • 102 pages

शीतला-refers to cool in sanskrit, this story is a classic anecdote and sets a premise of how a young woke challenges her grandfather through her colonial education which has shaped her way of thinking and how her cool grandfather, an erudite scholar of Ayurveda strategizes and removes ignorance (avidya) by providing a clear mental model intermittently of why you should not buy the narrative of modern Wikipedia scientists instead of a dedicated sources. Its a common fashion nowadays as there are many so called Pseudoscientific detectives on the internet deceive and try to act as intellectuals to establish everything associated with ancient India as superstition and pseudoscience.

May 30, 2022