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Friday, November 07, 2008
Ancient History of Test Cricket
Dr Pandey writes about the Ancient History of Test Cricket in his family blog.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
A Delusion called the Free-Market (and gravity)
This is the modified version of the letter I wrote to Amit Varma in response to his article in his web-log India Uncut, Changing the Law of Gravity, dated 15 November 2007.
Dear Mr Varma,
Apropos your piece entitled "Changing the Law of Gravity", Congressman Bill Sali makes a very valid point.
Every state is defined by its Constitution—a text which lays down the rules by which all actions within the nation can operate. Vaazhappazha had its Parashurama Sutra, England has its Magna Carta, and India and America have their own constitutions.
In America the law of the market and the law of gravity are specifically written down in their constitution. This is primarily a result of the era in which the American Founding Fathers lived, and their writing is a reflection of their belief system. Therefore America is where the market and gravity were said to exist (that is, until recently).
India, on the other hand is different. Since we were not founded on the principle of the free market and of gravity, but instead on socialism and the history of Hanuman having flown to Lanka, one cannot expect western values to be imposed on us. Unfortunately, the neo-liberals amongst us make the very mistake and point to the American constitution as an example.
In a curious development, Eastern (specifically Indian) historical texts have greatly influenced modern western ideas. In fact I would call most of it sheer plagiarism. Indian non-gravitational inventions such as the Pushpaka Vimana, and anti-gravitational ideas such as Hanuman flying up to the sun and Krishna lifting a mountain have all had a bearing on recent western thought and science.
The travel of Indian ideas to the rest of the world closely coincides with western non-gravitational inventions such as the aircraft and space-flight, and also non-gravitational concepts such as Superman and the Incredible Hulk. And if you notice carefully, all the things I have so far mentioned are in fact American.
Just as the legislation of the minimum wage and the New Deal came about as a result of market-failure, Superman and space-flight are a direct result of gravity-failure.
It is probably time for America to rethink its holy-cow constitution and come up with a text that recognises that far from the truth, the free market and gravity are both non-existent delusions. I am glad Congressman Sali has realised this, and I thank you for pointing our attention to this very uplifting piece of news.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Acharya Somuchidononanda Pandey
Hon. Director, Smirzkoff Centre for Historical Speculation in Pune, India
Director, Mehta-Vedic Sciences Project in London
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Sethusamudram and India's fortunes
Even as I write this, the country is hotly debating the contentious Ramar-Sethu issue. On the one hand are government officials (since sacked) who have put on record their views that seem to purport that the entire stretch of the Sethu Bridge is not man made, and therefore by extension, and quite interestingly, the person who is believed to have organised its construction should have in fact been "man-made", so to say. On the other hand are groups of politically savvy religious zealots who would rather be comfortably ignorant of scientific opinion, and organise their belief system not on rationality, but on mythology (take the proponents of intelligent design in America for example).
Needless to explicitly state what side of the political, scientific and religious debate I find myself on, but nonetheless, rather than cloud the discussion with what could be my own prejudices and biases, and in the interest of the democratic political system we embrace, I would only like to bring some civility, rationality, and scientific facts to the table.
The ASI made certain uncalled-for comments in its deliberations, but the scientific and archaeological aspects of its findings are still valid. Those who oppose the destruction of the bridge, on the other hand, only use aspects of faith in their defence, and these would not stand up in a court of law.
It is quite ironic that there in fact exist a piece of scientific evidence to base their claims on, but the existence of which they are strangely not even aware of. This is actually a once renown, but now forgotten book that was published way back in 1894 by an even lesser known German Indologist Hans Schmertler. But in order to understand Schmertler's Die großartigen Indischen Vermögen we need to look further back in history.
William Tourniquette, the Al-Pais, and the bone-throwers of Rameshwaram
In the year 1754 under the direction of then governor of Madras Thomas Saunders, a delegation comprising of a Scottish Company accountant Ebenezer McCandy, an Armenian pearl trader Aram Achatourgian, an English geographer Andrew Handiwick and a Anglo-French scribe William Tourniquette travelled to the Sethu area to study the local economy. The aim was to establish a permanent pearl-trading zone along the Jaffna-Mannar area (currently in Sri Lanka) with direct links to the Rameshwaram-Pamban island outposts. While the prospectors studied the viability of their projects, Tourniquette made certain strange observations, which he recorded in his journals. These entries were published posthumously in Paris in the year 1767 after Tourniquette died after a he contracted venereal disease on an expedition to Egypt.
Tourniquette's Les Economie Curieux de Céthou contained detailed accounts of the religious practises of the Tamoul natives. Tourniquette observed that the fishermen on either side of the straights had the habit of depositing small amount of debris along the undersea formation everytime they caught fish in the area. While a meagre catch meant a few fishbones thrown in, an abundant catch sometimes resulted in mutton ribs, or sometimes (it has been said that Tourniquette was prone to exaggerate) even human hip bones, acquired from virgins who were sacrificed to the Tamil wave goddess Cadalai Devi (probably Kadal-alai Devi).
But what Tourniquette's strange observations does prove was that there was this almost obsessive preoccupation among the locals in preserving a physical geographic connection between Mannar and Rameshwaram. While the English dismissed this as merely superstition, and promptly suppressed the activity with the Fisherman's Bone-throwing (Prevention) Act of 1760, Tourniquette who dabbled with the occult could not be that easily convinced. The eternal ecologist in him would not rest until he found answers, and for which he travelled to Egypt where a similar custom had been observed amongst the then dwindling Al-Pais Bedouin tribe. The Al-Pais, whenever they encountered a rare oasis in the desert, would drink some water and in gratitude throw a lot of desert sand into the pool. While they were universally hated for this, and which also contributed to their dwindling numbers, Tourniquette suspected that their self-defeating belief system pointed to a probable maritime origin of the Al Pais. It is another story that he eventually took to them so much that he contracted syphilis in trying unsuccessfully to prevent their eventual extinction.
The case of the bone-throwers were forgotten by history until the arrival in India of Hans Schmertler in 1880. He was one of the first Europeans to extensively study the Parashurama Sutra of the Keralan Kingdom of Vaazhappazhaa. Schmertler immediately noticed how the Keralans were able to maintain a strangely high level of insularity despite the Malabar coast being on the crossroads of trade and civilization. While many attribute it to the compulsively closeted affinity-system of the Malayali (for example in Roshini Chinnappa's 1986 paper, The Keralan Republican Army (KRA) and its activities in Indian universities), Schmertler immediately identified other factors. The Political boundaries of Vaazahppazhaa were strictly defined by tenets laid down in the Prashurama Sutra.
Aagama Desha-Khanda Vaastu
Schmertler meticulously translated the difficult Sanskrit of the verses and travelled extensively in Bharatha Varsha to record his observations in Die großartigen Indischen Vermögen. He observed how the existence of hot deserts to the south and cold deserts to the north resulted in the volatile political situation of the frontier provinces west of the Punjab. The 15th Chapter of the Parasurama Sutra outlines the vedic science of Aagama Desha-Khanda Vaastu, or The Ritualistic Vaastu of the Nation.
Schmertler noted how the verse Uttharaantharam itham frigidam, dakshinaantram atham sijilam, gachathi atho gathi desham vayam, very accurately described the situation in the frontier lands. Also the geographic prescriptions regarding mountainous areas are very precise. Paschimadi shikharancha, ragalatham meghavarahahahahi ikistavaschiraanjalascha kesaram kabothukaam jalasam jambam, outlines the exact relationship between the height, foliage, directional orientation, cloud cover, and steepness of a western hill to the fertility of the women of a kingdom. By limiting their political boundaries to exact such points, the Kings of Vaazhappazha held a successful reign, until an unwise move in 1804 by the 17th Paasugandathil Thamburan to dredge a pond, resulted in complete annexation by the Therambikku Kozhiyachan of Travancore.
Schmertler then travelled to the Arakkan in the newly conquered British-Indian regions of Burma in 1887. There, he found texts quite similar to the Parashurama Sutra (probably originating from a Tibeto-Burman copy of the Sutra from the 4th Century). The Syaw Syaw Dok Than monastery had kept meticulous oral records of the Desan-Kan Vatu. Thebaw had not heeded his advisers request to move the capital to the south, and this had directly resulted in the British takeover. (It is said that the recent move of the Myanmarese Capital by its current rulers was indeed prompted by extensive belief in the Party of the teachings of the Desan-Kan Vatu)
Burma held immeasurable wealth, and Schmertler soon discovered that this was due to the geographic engineering carried out by its rulers in accordance with the Vatu verses. For example during the heights of the 4th Myaw Vyei Kingdom in the 12th century, an entire village was forced to dig up sea-bed silt from the south and carry it upland to create a new 13,4052nd hill at the very southern end of the Arakkan mountain chain. The hill was measured to be exactly 750meters high, and this by Vaastu standrads, placed at the Ishanya direction of the kingdom, helped immeasurably in the war against the Siamese aggression.
Geographic Engineering, and Desha-Vaastu in Europe
Having made this startling discovery, Schmertler had to hurriedly abandon his research as his estate near Zurich was under tremendous financial strain. As he went back to Europe to settle his affairs, he took with him several pages of handwritten transcripts of the Aagama Desha-Khanda Vaastu. It was in Zurich in 1889 that he met the French Occultist Francoise Finigrelesque. Finigrelesque introduced Hans Schmertler to Tourniquette's Les Economie Curieux de Céthou. Schmertler immediately and furiously began working on Die großartigen Indischen Vermögen. He concluded that the curious bone-throwing practice of the Tamil fishermen was in fact deeply connected to the political and economic continuity and prosperity of southern India. The maritime prescriptions in Aagama Desha-Khanda Vaastu stipulate the exact height of an underwater bridge with respect to tidal activity in a shallow sea region. This, Schmertler understood to be directly connected with wars and political freedoms of the nation under whose control these undersea formations happen to be in. Schmertler postulated in this text that any destruction of a feature such as Sethu would result in largescale economic calamity and wars.
This, is where the current debate becomes interesting. And before the anti-sethusamudram parties get hold of the Die großartigen Indischen Vermögen, I would like to preempt it by putting forward recent findings of my own that actually disagrees with Schmertler.
But before that I need to complete the curious history of the Die großartigen Indischen Vermögen. After its publication in 1894, Hans Schmertler disappeared from the records. Some say he went to live as hermit in the Alps while other say he became a pearldiver in Polynesia. One story even mentions him as having worked for a Belgian trading company in the Jungles of Congo. Nevertheless, the book itself became a cult artefact. Noted American Businessman Joseph Vanderbater purchased one of the only two known copies in 1911. The other copy was reputed to have been sold to English millionaire Lord Ernest Buttlechart who took it down with him when he drowned with the Titanic. The Vanderbater copy was donated by his widow to the Martha-Henry Constantine Museum in Boston in late 1922. This is where the story gets murkier with the book being lost amidst two alleged murders, erased records, and a marital scandal.
The Vanderbater resurfaced in Bonne in Germany in 1932. The Nazis were in fact so take in by Schmertler's transcripts of the Desha Vaastu texts, that Hitler personally authorised the secret Sophia project to study large-scale geographic engineering. The idea was to detonate nuclear bombs under ocean beds, mountain ranges, and woodlands in order to enhance the longevity of the Reich. Fortunately, the project ran out of funding as WWII protracted and after the fall of Germany, the book was brought to Moscow by the Red Army. This is where the reunion took place between the Parashurama Surta (the original source of the Aagama Desha-Khanda Vaastu), and the Vanderbater version of the Die großartigen Indischen Vermögen. Under my dear friend the late Prof. Varely Smirzkoff, the books were extensively studied, but unfortunately, the Soviet regime was dismissive of the scientific veracity of Desha Vaastu, and therefore did not fund the research really well.
My recent studies, and the Vedic Sciences Project
It was only in recent years have I had the good fortune of having done this very study. For this, thanks should go to the Vedic Sciences Project, instituted by noted British-Indian businessman Lord Kamlesh-Harilal 'Jack' Mehta.
Getting back to my findings, here is how I disagree with Schmertler, and prove that the destruction of the Sethu would not adversely affect India. In the 23rd Chapter of the Vanderbater, Ozeangeographie Vaaschtü, Schmertler mentions the Vaastu verse Karamatam kadalasya matsyaasti na vegam dumilam nikarathaha, and writes "Die Fishboneanordnung darf nicht für die Verhinderung des Unfalles gestört werden". Translated in English, "The fishbone (or coral) formation must not be disturbed for the prevention of disaster". He quotes the 42nd chapter of the Parashurama Sutra as the source.
Interestingly, Schmertler, when he wrote his book, was in Europe and did not have the original Vastu texts from the Sutra with him. He only had his handwritten transcripts to go by, and this is where a curious typo has affected his otherwise, very erudite analysis. The 42nd chapter of the Sutra actually reads thus: Karamatam kadalasya matsyaasti ana vegam dumilam nikarathaha. This means the whole meaning of the sentence is reversed. Also, there is another verse that says: Paschimam purvakam angalam krouranitha vikayatam dashaani vartam yudham nischayam. This makes an interesting cross-variable reference with regards to time of outbreak of war, coral orientation and direction (east or west). In fact there is grim empirical proof for these verses.
In 1954, the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka was defined by the "Sinhala Only Act". This can be said to be the real origin of the currently continuing civil war. In exactly 10 years, as mentioned in the verse, in 1964, the cyclone that hit Danushkodi submerged a substantial portion of the land thereby reducing the optimum height of the underwater formation. If the fish-bone-throwing practice had been continued, this effect of the cyclone would have been mitigated, but since that was not done, this spelt doom for the land to the "east". So, here we have proof that it is not India, but Sri Lanka which will be adversely affected by any damage to the Sethu formation. Ironically, India would actually prosper, especially because the kalasa paradigm outlined by Schmertler would take effect. The Kalasha effect, a yearly exponential increase in GDP, would be more pronounced in present day India, (Schmertler did not predict the partition of India). To India's west is in fact, a hostile nation, (yuddha jamakkalam) rather than Sunga surukkam (Persia/Iran). This accentuates the Kalsha effect. In fact the only way this favourable Vaastu can be broken is if the Himalayas were to become passable. This, I can confidently state will not happen as China has no such intentions. The People's Republic has even given oral commitment to respecting the northern territorial integrity of India, and we can trust them to keep their word.
In conclusion
As a researcher, a man of science, but also a man of conscience, it makes my situation quite unenviable. On one hand is a text such as the Vanderbater, which if it fell into the wrong hands would be wrongly read and become a stumbling block to the Sethu Samudram project, and also to the eventual super-wealth of India. On the other hand, is my conclusive investigation that though predicting considerable prosperity for India, spells disaster for Sri Lanka if the project is to go ahead.
I have laid out the facts for you my readers to absorb. Now it is up to those with the powers of decision, as well as discretion to do the needful, whatever that may be.
-- Dr. Acharya Somuchidononanda Pandey
PhD (corres.) M.A.S. University, Darjeeling
(The writer is Hon. Director, Smirzkoff Centre for Historical Speculation in Pune, India and Director, Mehta-Vedic Sciences Project in London. He lives with his wife Valentina Dimitrieva Pandey, and twenty two children in suburban St.Petersberg. He can be contacted at acsomuchval@pandey.ru)
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
The Masculine Fixation of the Heroic Villain—A Critical Review of Mani Ratnam's Greceo-Capitalistic, Anti-feministic Discourse, "Guru"
I have many problems with Mani Ratnam's Guru. The least of its follies is that it is patently capitalistic, but its bigger message is what is hidden in its quasi-ontological implications. While on the topic of the general Greco-Capitalist mindset that pervades Indian mainstream thinking, the moral bankruptcy of Mani Ratnam in indicating that making profits is good, has made it very clear why he is in this business.
Coming from a country in which filmmakers like David Dhavan and Yash Chopra have spurned profits to veritably devote their lives to make meaningful cinema, Mani Ratnam shames their glorious names by proving that his aim includes making money, and in not letting cinema do its natural duty of enlightening and educating the masses. The poverty of the masters has been dealt a fiery blow with this film.
Getting to the more sinister aspects of Guru, we find that in his purveyance of capitalistic entertainment, Mani Ratnam's undercurrent gender stereotyping is only too obvious. Why is the protagonist male? Why cannot a woman or a gender minority have been named Gurukanth? In his denail of the non-male, Gurukanth can only naturally be male. And therefore an anti-feminine capitalist.
The Dutch-German feminist scholar Marta Nettrich-Kahn, in her seminal essay A Falsification of Progesterone (Fem-Sci, Vol 23, Issue 5, 1967) studies the phenomenon of maleness as that of being essentially non-female. Her essay also states that the fundamental male-female dialectic also produces a synthesis of the third androgyn, that evolves to encompass a phenomenology of rhetorical passivity. That is why, Nettrich-Kahn feels, the portrayal of the male in popular discourse often always entails the suppression of the female epistemen, while consciously isolating the non-congruation of the fifth transformation.
Mani Ratnam's Guru is a classic example of what Nettrich-Kahn goes on to describe as the profiteering phallic bourgeoisie. Almost all collectivist (female) syllogism are violently replaced by a domineering individualistic (male) gaze. The scene in which Gurukanth's wife is shown crying is a classic example of this. The train represents the phallus, and her journey on it represents her submission to the wills of the male guardian, who's discourse this entire film is based upon.
This capitalistic masculinity of the film also creates no space for the discussion of non-heterosexual phenomenology. The suppression of the female, and the left, and the south, is also extended to the suppression of the queer. By showing Gurukanth as being heterosexual, Ratnam also denies space for homosexual plasticism. In the initial scenes, an implication of a queer reading, scares Mani Ratnam into conventional right-wing narration, thereby proving his anti-gay tendencies.
The French enlightenment thinker Rene Chayreque defined the world of pictorial discourse as being of two types: The ones that move in the realm of the oppressed, and the others that move in the realm of the capitalist. The Chayreque Dialogue as it is more popularly known, defines the very foundations of motion picture in India. The capitalistic heterosexual masculinity of the total in its quest for shareholder maximisation, denies the emasculation of the female and the queer oppressed.
Noted Malayali film critic Kollam Kondozhi Kunnath in his description of TV Chandran's recent film Aadum Koothu, introduces the concept of the Madrasi Chickku in describing female actresses. The Madrasi Chickku is defined by over pigmentation and a general disfigurement of the countenance. Mani Ratnam's company is called Madras Talkies; therefore his depiction of the female conforms to these identified distortions. Further proving that Ratnam's decision to name his company so, is a deliberate attempt to bias his film output against the female. The film is also dangerously casteist in its refusal to showcase any non-brahmin characters. But that is to be expected of all of Ratnam's post Roja material, and therefore will not be dealt with in detail here.
If at-all there is one thing Guru is to be praised for, it is in its rightful portrayal of the character of Mallika Sherawat. The Turkish belly-dancer, is the only character that really stands up to the bourgeois trickery of the gambling male. But naturally, having introduced such a character, Ratnam, very quickly moves the action to India, as the Turkic revolutionary is too threatening to the fundamental morphology of the film, that deals with a status-quoist, middle-class, heterosexual urbanism.
Another place where Guru fails miserably is in its refusal to discuss, or even acknowledge the dangers of global warming. Since the recent UN report "unequivocally" recognises human causes for rise in sea levels, the film, which involves human characters and is set in Bombay, a coastal city, is only cynically cruel in its conscious avoidance of its moral obligation. Ratnam, is therefore naturally, a global-warming denier. Gramsci called the globe, The Mother, paving way for Gorky's book by the same name. Ratnam's refusal to deal with issues involving The Mother, is truly consistent with his depiction of the Madrasi Chiccku.
Overall, the film fails with its critically perverse notions of entertainment at the cost of moral purity. It is certain that the screening of this film would enrage anyone with a conscience. The Andolestic monastic Krishacharya was prophetic when he said that (the) right is always the wrong. Guru being rightwing Greco-Capitalistic, Anti-Female, Anti-Queer, Anti-Dalit, Anti Global-Warming and heartless, is certainly and emphatically "wrong"!
- Dr. (Mrs.) Valentina Dimitrieva Pandey
MA (lit.) MPhil (illit.) PhD(corres.) M.A.S. University, Darjeeling
(The writer is the Randal Zakuroff Chair of Gender Studies at the Department of Social Sciences, at the University of St Petersberg, Russia. She lives with her husband Acharya Somuchidononanda Pandey, and twenty two children in the Malyeshi suburb of St.Petersberg. She can be contacted at acsomuchval@pandey.ru)
Sunday, January 07, 2007
The Significance of the Vishnu Idol
The discovery of an ancient Vishnu idol in an excavation in Russia only confirms certain ideas I have always had about our ancient and glorious land and culture.
The report says that the area in which the idol was found is called Staraya Maina. In the Rig Veda, there is a passage that goes, Itham ascati pasyat syantham, ekam mainam starayath kalam. This translates into Staraya Maina is the name of the land of the 45 rivers (on whose banks the noble Rishis conducted the famous Horse Sacrifices), where the sun god descends into one fifty two forty seven. While the first line identifies a location, the second line talks about the exact latitude and longitude at which the solar spectrum produces interference lines at one, fifty two, and forty seven.
The extreme precision of the calculations show the advanced science of the Vedic period, and also a thorough knowledge of SI units (it has been conclusively proven that French scientists stole the system from the Indians.
The discovery of the idol confirms the location in Russia, identified in the Rig Veda as rus soviath sapthamahanagaratham (the ancient and holy land of the 722 flying vehicles). The ancient connections between the Russians and the Indians has been unequivocally confirmed. In Russian orthodox Christianity, worship is conducted very much like in Vishnu temples. The Russians refer to the feast of Vizhnyir Ekoratsya Vikhunh, directly corresponding with Vaikhunda Ekhadasi.
The Russian language also owes a lot to Sanskrit, whose origins 50,000 years ago roughly correspond with the language of the people of the Smritzyi archaeological site, along the banks of the now-dried up Vernstokhlin (Varnasatyakhalini) river system.
It is common knowledge in the archaeological community that the Parashurama Sutra, the basis of all government policy in the erstwhile Kerala kingdom of Vaazhappazhaa, contains the lines Sthulyam Kaamyunishancha kalanam brighahaha. The links between the ancient Russians and Indians almost certainly aided by the 60,00 odd scholars of the University of Vexalate (Sk. Vekhshalatha, Ru. Vekholotsla), in modern-day Central Afghanistan, in the 17th Century BCE, is said to have transferred political ideas through the land of the Vanga (Ru. Vangnya) in modern-day West Bengal.
The Vishnu idol is depicted with a hammer in one left hand while the deconglated seventh arm on the right side holds a reticulated sickle. This hammer and sickle imagery is also found in the Parashurama Sutra, conclusively placing the origin of great and popular Russian political ideology in Vedic India.
The Bringdunthaladeena Upanishad also mentions Kaamyunishcham in its list of land sacrifices, where under the directions of the King, all the land in the country was donated to the performance of sacrifices where Brahmins continuously tickled horny silk-rats (Gandharvamooshicam) until they collapsed in orgiastic exhaustion. The text also clearly identifies a group of scholars referred to as the Paalita Buryam, who oversaw the functioning of the King.
For years, western historical study dominated by Greco-Capitalists, has sought to undermine the Vedic Indian contributions to what came to be 19th and 20th Century world politics. The Greco-Capitalists also attributed the ideology of Communism to the work done by Karl Marx, one of their own. It has been well documented that Marx indeed visited Kerala and West Bengal, and had thorough understanding of the Parashurama Sutra, a copy of which he picked up in the old-book-stall near the Cochin airport. Later on, as part of the larger Greco-centric Capitalist conspiracy, Marx took all the credit himself.
In 1952 in Soviet Russia, an archaeologist, Prof. Varely Smirzkoff of Odessa University found artefacts near the ancient Belarussian town of Kozhikodz. He was the first to speculate that the ruling political ideology of his country could well have had its origins in Vedic India rather than Modern Europe. Stalin funded Smirzkoff's research until Smirrzkoff was suddenly found to have stolen over 500,000 paper clips from work over the course of his tenure at Odessa University. He was sent to Siberia, and with him went almost all academic proof that would have certainly brought Russia and India closer together.
In one meeting with Nehru, Stalin is indeed said to have remarked, "Your land is ancient, and if you promise not to side with the Americans, I will buy onions from you, in recognition of the intellectual legacy India had left for my country". He did not elaborate on this as the Smirzkoff's research had not achieved much by then. But alas in just two-years time, Prof. Smirzkoff was shovelling permafrost dressed in grey overalls.
This recent discovery should resurrect the pioneering work started by Prof. Varely Smirzkoff, who died of Contracted Poloniumitis of the nose, in 1964.
-- Dr. Acharya Somuchidononanda Pandey
PhD (corres.) M.A.S. University, Darjeeling
(The write is Hon. Director, Smirzkoff Centre for Historical Speculation in Pune, India. He lives with his wife Valentina Dimitrieva Pandey, and twenty two children in suburban St.Petersberg. He can be contacted at acsomuchval@pandey.ru)
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