Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.