My Journey into Sanatana Dharma

Found this excerpt of what an Indian National Congress man (yes the psuedo-secular) had to say about the contributions of the ancient Indian rishis to the world are. And if you see the list below, these are the foundations of EVERYTHING that resulted in the modern life. Oh and yes, ALL OF THEM were written/expounded in Sanskrit!! Similarly, in asserting that ancient Indians anticipated Pythagoras, Dr Harsh Vardhan was not incorrect and should not have been ridiculed. In fact he could have added Newton, Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo as well, every single one of whom had been beaten to their famous "discoveries" by an unknown and unsung Indian centuries earlier.   The Rig Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together 24 centuries before the apple fell on Newton's head. The Siddhantas are amongst the world's earliest texts on astronomy and mathematics; the Surya Siddhanta, written about 400 A.D., includes a method for finding the times of planetary ...

So a month ago or so there was this news article of how an actress, Gauhar Khan, was slapped by an audience member belonging to the same community as she. The television media was obviously all over it. And the coverage of this caught my attention in the way the media worded this incident. The specific verbiage used by the media is, that this person, with a "regressive mindset" took offense to the way the actress was dressed and slapped her. First of all I don't think slapping an adult is the right thing to do. But I am not here to discuss how to deal with someone's ideas of what is right. But this post is about the idea of what is right, what is the right way for women or for that matter anyone to dress. So according to the media, the person who suggested that Gauhar Khan wear respectable clothes (we will come to what "respectable" is in a bit) in full public view has a regressive mindset. So my next question to the media in India (especially) ...