Epiphany - An Astounding Realization

Connecting the dots, its almost second nature to me and its what I DO BEST, or so I thought, and it took me nearly 17 odd years to realize what I am blogging below. Its perhaps a no brainer that this will force me into deeper introspections and will command more careful attention from me. Without further ado, on to the topic....

Last night, I was casually skimming the excerpts from "Devil in the White City". Its about "The Greatest Fair in American History: The Chicago World Fair"

Now this book is about an Architect and a Serial Killer, whose fates where linked by this Fair. But while reading it, out of no where, I suddenly realized I know of 2 events that happened exactly during that time frame, the idea of 2 men whose fates where linked some how encouraged me to dig for what was just an occurring thought. But I decided to give it a shot !

Swami Vivekananda and his talk at the Parliament of Religions is common folk lore in India and is etched in the minds of almost every Indian. I sure remember it was Chicago, and it was 1893. But I did not remember anything about a "Fair" (speaks volumes of my attentiveness)

Very recently, I learnt Edison lost out in his battle for popularizing DC, because of a fair in 1893. Read the aforeblogged link for the genesis of that idea. Following that I learnt that Tesla was the guy who invented AC. (As a matter of fact he is one of those rare brilliant geniuses who is known very little inspite of being the first of many astounding inventions)

I am also biased into believing that "Great Men are made because of Great Times". This instinct and pure inquisitiveness opened the doors for something I had not realized. "The Columbian Exposition 1893". Its legacy is credited with the following firsts

• Dawn of Corporate Culture in America
• Dawn of Consumerism in America and Paradigm shift from Producer to Consumer Society
• Adoption of Electricity and Technology in America

And the most interesting by-products - (Vivekananda and Telsa also apparently met here, became friends and Telsa started to use Vedic insights into his research). This is clearly the dawn of the aforeblogged Convergence of Eastern and Western Sciences.