Mustafa Kemal Atatürk or Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey was born on this date in 1881.

He was a fascinating character. He had courageously ended the once upon- the largest Sunni Muslim Empire in the world, the Ottoman Empire.

He turned the Islamic Imperialistic Turkey into a SECULAR country.

He evicted Turkish languish from the cusp of Arabic script and gave it a Roman script.

While demolishing those pillars, he also ensured that the Grand Mufti of Turkey was robed in no less regal robes than the Pope.

Mustafa Kemal (of Turkey),Habib Bourguiba (of Tunisia) are my secular heroes from Islamic world.

I am open to be asked any questions on this subject.

The sensitive Hindu weighing system,

magine taking into weight account, the floating specks/motes one sees in a ray of sunlight through a wire mesh?My weekend post of Beautiful India this week is about amazing system of weighing that has that speck/mote counted into its weighing system. A system which has existed in this subcontinent for thousands of year. Rishi Manu(ऋषि मनु), in his ‘Manu smriti’( मनु स्मृति ) describes: 
The very small mote which may be discerned in a sunbeam passing through a lattice is the first of quantities, and men call it ‘atrasarenu’(ात्रसारेणू ).

Eight of these ‘atrasarenus’ are supposed equal in weight to one minute poppy-seed ‘likhya’(लिख्या).

Three of those seeds are equal to one black mustard-seed ‘raja-sarshapa’(रज सर्षपा).

Three of these last to a white mustard seed ‘gaur-sarshapa’(गौर सर्षपा).


Six white mustard-seeds are equal to a middle sized barley-corn ‘yava’(यवा).

Three such barley-corns to one ‘ raktika’(रक्तिका) or ‘Ratti’(रत्ती) (The Bangladeshi currency gets its name ‘Taka’ from the corruption of this ‘Raktika’.

Five Raktika’/ ‘Ratti’ of gold are one ‘masha’(माशा). Hereafter, multiples of Ratti are used to measure further like sixteen such ‘mashas’ make one ‘suvarna’(सुवर्ण) measure….