Is something between positive and negative,

between plus and minus,

between extremly rich and extremly poor,

between children working at night in order to prepare holy statues for selling and newspapers advertising healthy yogi moments in lifestyle hotels,

between soldiers who fight for their regular income and a political structure that buys combat helicopters,

between a nation that is engaged in a prestigious run to moon

and a nation that admires a monk who talks about non-me elements,

a culture which challenges foreigners to find their way in the middle between all this,

a middle, a form of zeroness.

One newsline says that India will become a nuclear power.

Another newsline says that terrorists are victims.

Both news are spread around Gandhis birthday in Indian newspapers.

Both news formulate possibilities of Indias future role within the global community:

One extremly peaceful: A power which connects and which is compassionate.

One extremly fearful: A power which will dominate less powerful nations.

Both possibilities are ways of dealing with zeros.

India is embarking for a mission to the moon. 2014 the nation will be in the orbit and reach the moon with an own spacecraft.
In the meantime others are buiding flexible timeships in order to reach the orbits of Indian history. This is a history of dealing with zero and nothingness, a history of discontinuities which fuel the mind with a manifold of different rhythms.

One single number should determine our life: 1.

Greater has no peace or rest,

A calculator counts furter

Who can say at what number be stops?

This question gnaws Paracelsus. (Zukofsky A 12, p. 178)