"What was the superpower doing then? America hadn’t been discovered by Columbus till 500 years later." Watch Vikram remind us to be proud of India...
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00:00Raja Raja Cholan had built it.
00:02I am the soldier of Chol Raja.
00:04I am the servant of Chol Paja.
00:06We had the biggest maritime
00:08naval thing in the world.
00:10And it went all the way to Bali
00:12all the way to Malaysia
00:14and we sent emissaries to China.
00:16And you know what was
00:18the superpower doing then?
00:20America hadn't been discovered by Columbus
00:22till 500 years later.
00:24England is so illustrious
00:26but England was invaded by the Vikings
00:28and Europe was in the dark ages during the 9th century.
00:30They had nothing going on.
00:58We all talk about the pyramids.
01:00And how could they have possibly built it?
01:02How did they do it so many years ago?
01:04But do you know that in India
01:06we have so many temples
01:08but the one with the highest gopuram
01:10is there in Tanjavur
01:12which is where the Chola dynasty had happened
01:14and his rule, Raja Raja Cholan had built it.
01:16That particular temple has the highest
01:18gopuram in the whole world.
01:20The top stone alone,
01:22it's a single stone.
01:24The top stone alone
01:26it's a single stone
01:28that weighs 80 tons.
01:3080 tons, not 1 ton or 2 tons.
01:32And how did they do it?
01:34But do we know that?
01:36We all go to the pyramids, we go see the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
01:38Someone said something very nicely.
01:40He said, we are actually appreciating a building
01:42that doesn't stand.
01:44It's falling over and wow, let's take a picture, let's take a selfie.
01:46I'm getting excited.
01:48But we have temples today that stand
01:50and they didn't use plaster.
01:52Do you know that for this particular stone
01:54which was 6 kilometers long,
01:56which was pulled by bulls, elephants and people,
01:586 kilometers long to get it up there
02:00without any machinery,
02:02without any cranes, without anything.
02:04And they didn't have plaster.
02:06It's withstood 6 earthquakes.
02:08You know what happens when an earthquake comes
02:10without plaster.
02:12What they have done is they have an outer wall
02:14then inside that they have a corridor of 6 feet
02:16which is an open, just a corridor
02:18and then they have another structure inside
02:20which goes all the way to the top
02:22to withstand earthquakes
02:24which is why they stood so long.
02:26So these are all things that we need to know about.
02:28This particular king has built 5000 dams
02:30in his time
02:32and he has made a water management ministry
02:34in that time.
02:36He has had elections for the village leaders.
02:38He has asked them to name cities
02:40after women.
02:42Why should it only be men?
02:44Why can't it be named after queen?
02:46And they have had hospitals, free hospitals
02:48and he actually brought loans.
02:50I mean he used to give loans.
02:52He used to help people get dignity
02:54not just throw money around.
02:56So this is something that is so illustrious
02:58and this happened in the 9th century.
03:00I am sorry I am taking so much time.
03:02It happened in the 9th century when
03:04the rest of the world, you talk about superpowers today.
03:06In the 9th century all this happened
03:08when we had the biggest maritime
03:10naval thing in the world
03:12and it went all the way to Bali,
03:14all the way to Malaysia
03:16and we sent emissaries to China.
03:18And you know what was the superpower doing then?
03:20America hadn't been discovered by Columbus
03:22till 500 years later.
03:24So think about
03:26our culture, think about how advanced
03:28we were. We need to be proud of this.
03:30It's nothing to do with North India, South India,
03:32West India, East India. It is, we are Indians
03:34and we, I mean we need to feel
03:36proud about that.
03:38And England is so illustrious
03:40but England was invaded by the Vikings
03:42and Europe was in the dark ages
03:44during the 9th century. They had nothing going on.
03:46So don't you think we should celebrate history?
03:48Absolutely.