Modern Science and Veda Sastras

I read this slim book last week.
Author is S.Balasubramanian. Publisher: Sura Books Ltd.

In India, everything has a history of nothing less than a thousand years. We are an old civilisation and we all take immense pride in asserting that whatever western science discovers today was known ages ago by our Rishis ! Navigation, aeronautics, rocketry , genetics, Invitro-Fertilisation, surgery, you name it, our rishis apparently knew it !
The abovementioned book goes further back, to the very begining of time. Concepts like The Big-Bang, Origin of Life, Relativity, measurement of time, blackholes, planetary motion , etc. are all simplified and compared with the Vedic notions of Hiranyagarbha, Pralaya , Mahat, Tanmatras etc. It makes fascinating reading.
The book could have been better edited, because some passages seem loosely knit and some chapters do not quite clarify how the old view relates to the modern one . Grammatical mistakes and the printers devil too create some uneasiness while reading.
Nevertheless, it serves as a good introduction to the amazing thought processes prevalent in ancient India. I was wonderstruck by the tabulation given in the chapter on Measurement of time and Nano-Seconds; One example :

1 Truti = 30 Alpa Kala
Alpa Kala ,reportedly, is the time taken for a needle point to pierce a lotus leaf !
Howzzat !

Vidyasarada