Sankul
संकुल
a Clean-Up India Initiative
Currently ongoing Projects at Sankul
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Bharat Clock ->
Smaller Dials showing the Units place of Ghati and Pala.
Ghati Hand shows the position of Sun; Also shows 8 Pahaars.
Reads Aparaahna (Afternoon)
Ghati:Pala:Vipala = 21 : 37 : 47
Ask any Indian child to count, at a natural pace, upto 10, in her/his own mother tongue,; the time lapsed would likely be 10 vipalas and not 10 seconds! Note that 10 vipalas equals 4 seconds. The longer time period taken (slower count) for a second, a minute or an hour to lapse, can be attributed to the coarse division of the day to suit a 12-hour sundial, that was used by the Egyptians in Mesopotamia centuries back (1500 BC).
In South Asia, since the period of the Indus Valley Civilisation, Ghatikas (water clocks) were used to keep time of the day. It became so popular in all religions, castes and communities, that even the sun-dials were marked in terms of Ghatis - the unit of the water clock. Unfortunately, due to invasion and colonisation in the last millennium, India shifted from the 60-Ghati clock to the 12-hour clock.
The objective, here, is to make the ancient '60 Ghatika' clock popular, once again, in India, due to its numerous advantages. Currently its usage is limited to Astronomers and Astrologers. On the other hand the '24-hour' clock has been put to use, worldwide, for over centuries, for reasons that are no longer relevant nor valid. The revolutionary transition from the 'hour : minute : second' clock to the 'ghati : pala ; vipala' clock has great ramifications: for instance, 1 'vipala' = 0.4 'seconds'; the 'red' vipala' hand, and as a result, the 'pala' and 'ghati' hands would rotate/ count 2.5 times faster in comparison to the '24 hour' clock.
Here, we propose to make the revolutionary transition, from the '24-hour' clock to the '60-ghati' clock, easy and convenient for the general public. We suggest project execution in two stages. Initially, in Phase 1 we propose resetting of the '60-ghati' clock to zero, everyday, at 6:00 AM, rather than at sunrise. This means that all the Ghati clocks throughout India would read the same time, at all times. We call this the 'Phase 1 Bharat Clock'. The constraint would also make the design of a Phase 1 Bharat clock and its manufacture as a quartz clockwork mechanism, an easier exercise.
In Phase 2, the Bharat clock could be redesigned to reset as per the local sunrise time at any particular geographical location. Note the 'Phase 2 Bharat Clock' is already available in the form of an Android app- see Alok Mandavgane's App on Google Play Store : 'Hindu Calendar'. But to make the '60-ghati' clock more popular, for day to day usage, what we need is a '60-ghati wall-clock'.
The design of the Phase 1 Bharat clock, here, is the first such attempt.
I am a survivor. Not from sexual assault but from judicial assault. Based on our own personal experiences over the past 30 years, we have shown that the Indian Judiciary respect the Codified Laws (Civil and Criminal); but they exhibit absolutely no respect to the natural laws. The Revenue officers, and the Civil and Criminal court judges have shown that they lack simple arithmetic and logical abilities, and knowledge of basic sciences. We consider the Natural Laws and Common Law to be above the Codified Civil Laws, which the judiciary fail to appreciate. For instance, when two Civil Laws apply, the judges would not know which law takes precedence. That the facts need to be looked at in chronological order. The significance of decimal point in real numbers. The list is endless.
We might be biased in our evaluation of the Indian Judiciary. Hence, for the benefits of the Company's Shareholders, our well wishers, the law and policy makers and the public at large, we are attaching the copies of the judgements passed at various levels of the judiciary.
Why Sankul?
Being part of the developing world, India is facing numerous challenges and problems. We, Indians, conveniently attribute them to our past history and tend to become oblivious to the rapidly changing landscape in the developed countries. It has been more than 70 years since India became independent. We have a very rich heritage. Why can't we use it to leverage ourselves out of the current lethargic situation? It is time for each one of us to introspect and find innovative ways to take India on the fast track to progress.
Sankul.org (संकुल) is one such initiative to 'Clean-up' India. Originally set up to build the skills of fresh engineering trainees and interns; today, the goals are even more fundamental. Having been part of the telecom revolution in the 1980's, we believe that there is a desperate need to trigger more technological revolutions in areas where few believe that technology has any role to play. To begin with, we have identified three such areas that can act as catalyst to growth:
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What is a Sankul?
Sankul (संकुल) is a premises set up in the industry 'Baroda Electric Meters Ltd.', for fresh engineering trainees, interns, undergraduates to acquire missing skills in Embedded Systems, IoT (Internet of Things), Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines using an hands-on approach. Click here for more details about us.