‘The Triumph of Christianity: How a forbidden religion swept the world’ [Book Review]
Source: - Kalavai Venkat FB profile.
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2000 BC chariots set to redefine Mahabharata Age [Excerpt]
Source: - The Pioneer. Some 60 km drive from Delhi, at Sanauli in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has stumbled upon “royal burials” with remains of chariots dating 2000BC-1800BC. The first-of-its-kind findings in the Indian sub-continent dating back to the Bronze Age suggest that people of that era
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‘Vadanta and Science’ as per Erwin Schrodinger
Source: - 'A Life of Erwin Schrödinger' by Walter J Moore. ""Vedanta and Gnosticism are beliefs likely to appeal to a mathematical physicist, a brilliant only child, tempted on occasion by intellectual pride. Such factors may help to explain why Schrodinger became a believer in Vedanta, but they do not detract
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Triglav , Trojan, Trinity, Trimurti, Agni [Excerpts]
Source : - @serbiaireland / oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.in The book of Veles has this riddle: Jer tajna je velika, kako to Svarog biva u isto vreme i Perun i Svetovid. Translated into English it means: Because it is a great secret how come Svarog (hevenly and earthly fire) is at the same time Perun (thunder) and
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900-year drought wiped out Indus civilisation: IIT-Kharagpur [Excerpts]
Source: - Times of India. KHARAGPUR: The Indus Valley civilisation was wiped out 4,350 years ago by a 900-year-long drought, scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) have found. Evidence gathered during their study also put to rest the widely accepted theory that the said drought lasted for
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Kannada Aadikavi Pampa’s samadhi lies in ruins at Bodhan [Excerpt]
Source: - The Hindu. The samadhi of Kannada aadikavi (original poet) Pampa or Pampadu, one among the three poets who translated the epic Mahabharata into Kannada from Sanskrit remains totally neglected with stones strewn all around it at Basavatarakanagar in the town of Bodhan in Nizamabad district. The samadhi was ‘discovered’ only
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Does Saudi-funded Muslim Radicalization Threaten India? [Excerpts]
To read full article:- www.haaretz.com In India's hinterlands, a new and worrying phenomenon is brewing. Sleepy, laid-back cities are the focus of violent clashes between moderate and radical Muslim groups. ISIS recruiters have been caught in cities like Jaipur and Ajmer, and several youngsters from relatively prosperous states like Kerala, Karnataka and metro
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Migrants from India settled in Australia 4,000 years ago before Captain Cook’s arrival (and they took their dingos with them) [Excerpts]
Source: - Mail Online. Genes reveal that a wave of Indian migrants arrived 4,230 years ago Up to 11 per cent of Aboriginal DNA derives from Indians An earlier wave of migrants arrived about 45,000 years ago Australia was settled by a wave of immigrants from India little more than 4,000 years ago, a
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13th century inscription speaks of Chola king’s water management [Excerpts]
Courtesy: - Times of India. COIMBATORE: While conflicts between riparian states over water have become common today, a historian reminds us of a Kongu Chola king, who laid down rules for water management in the 13th century. When the region faced a water crisis in 1249AD, Perur residents had sought king Veerarajendra’s permission
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Seven decades after independence, most Dalit farmers still landless [Excerpts]
Source: This article is originally published in Hindustan Times. While a majority of Indian farmers cultivate their own land, Dalit farmers in much of the country continue to work for wages, data released last week by the Census of India confirms. The census separates farmers into two categories — cultivators, who have
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Uttaramerur model of democracy
Source: - The Hindu. Explaining the concepts behind the grand new Secretariat complex in Chennai, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi referred to the great inspiration Tamil Nadu can draw from the Uttaramerur inscription. It testifies to the historical fact that nearly 1,100 years ago, a village had an elaborate and highly refined
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Ambedkar on Islam: The story that must not be told [Excerpts]
Source: - https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/04/14/ambedkar-on-islam-the-story-that-must-not-be-toldSource: - Newslaundry.com From the Aryans to Aurangzeb, from St Xavier to Shivaji, our historians have chosen what to hide, what to invent, and what to disclose. The singular reason for this is the craving for patronage – of an ideology, a government, an ecosystem, or a clique. And once
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The pinnacles of Maratha attack [Excerpts]
Courtesy: - DNA India. The first few months of the year 1689 saw the Marathas pass through their toughest time. Chhatrapati Sambhaji, who had ably led them against the Mughals for almost a decade, had been captured and cruelly put to death. The capital fort — Raigad — had been besieged
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‘Chachnama’ (The history of Arab conquest of Sindh) describes the destruction of temple and slaughter of civilian population for 3 days
Courtesy:- True Indology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935214643340918784
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The Story Of Our Numbers [Excerpt]
Courtesy:- Shashikant Joshi / Swarajya. The history of mathematics is a vast topic which can never be studied perfectly since much of the work of ancient times remains undiscovered or has been lost through time. However, there is also much that is known and many important discoveries have been made over
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Ambedkar On Islamist invaders – Exceprts from the book ‘Pakistan or Partition of India’ (Part – 2)
Source: Vihaga Veekshanam Blog. To read first part of this post CLICK HERE. The methods adopted by the invaders have left behind them their aftermath. One aftermath is the bitterness between the Hindus and the Muslims which they have caused. This bitterness, between the two, is so deep-seated that a century of
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Restoring India’s Calculus Crown (Excerpts)
Courtesy: The Telegraph George Gheverghese Joseph is on a mission to reclaim India’s pride of place in the world of mathematics. An emeritus professor at Manchester University in the UK, his book, The Crest of the Peacock; Non-European roots of Mathematics, has challenged the status quo and persuaded the West to
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Operation Jihad Mafia: Kerala’s conversion factories unmasked : India Today Report (Excerpt)
Courtesy:- India Today Report on Kerala's Conversion Mafia and YouTube To Read the Full Report Please visit -> http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/love-jihad-kerala-conversion-factory-islamic-state/1/1079334.html In public, it proclaims to be a champion of diversity and equality. Kerala's Popular Front of India (PFI) has consistently denied accusations of religious conversions, hawala funding, murderous assaults and terror links. But India Today
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How Hindu Kashmir Turned to Muslim Majority? (‘The Valley of Kashmir’ by Walter Lawrence)
Source:- 'The Valley of Kashmir' written by Walter Lawrence. "Sultan Sikandar came to the throne, and soon earned the nickname of Butshikan or Iconoclast, from the intense zeal he showed in destroying the grand old temples which the Hindu Rajas had bequeathed to Kashmir. Sikandar was brave and cultured, but all
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The War Rocket Weapon of the Marathas
Source: - Oriental Memoires by James Forbes / Google Books ""There are doubtless many alterations and of late years in the Mahratta tactics which to this campaign at that time when to besiege a town they generally round the walls and having by that measure the garrison of all external means
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Dattatreya Parvatikar: The Musician as a Mystic (Excerpt)
Source:- http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/DjnP4LCD9jTBYQ20t8ci8H/Dattatreya-Parvatikar-The-musician-as-a-mystic.html Encased in a glass cabinet at the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s headquarters in New Delhi is a unique instrument. The Datta veena, which was once played by the country’s first president, Rajendra Prasad, is the only known piece of its kind today. It bears the inscription “1961”. The instrument appears
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IQBAL’S HINDU RELATIONS – Excerpts
Source: - The Telegraph India. I am beholden to P.V. Rawal of Jammu for sending me a photograph of Allama Iqbal’s Kashmiri Brahmin family taken in Sialkot in 1931. At this time Iqbal was in his mid-fifties. He had already risen to the top as the greatest Urdu poet, at par
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Before asking for partition Muslims claimed a higher degree of protection than was conceded to the other minorities on the ground of their political importance
Absolutely must-read excerpts from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's book titled "Pakistan or the Partition of India". Source: https://sites.google.com/site/cabinetmissionplan/b-r-ambedkar-in-pakistan-or-the-partition-of-india In the controversy that went on between Mr. Jinnah and the Congress in the year 1938, Mr. Jinnah was asked to disclose his demands which he refused to do. But these demands have come to
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“Gravamin Politics” : gain power by manufacturing grievances
Excepts from "Pakistan or the Partition of India" by BR Ambedkar. In particular they should note that there is a difference between Macht Politic [Power politics] and Gravamin Politic [in which the main strategy is to gain power by manufacturing grievances] ; that there is a difference between Communitas Communitatum and
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Why we must rewrite Indian history
Sanjeev Sanyal opened his talk, organized by the Srijan Foundation, by countering the fundamental argument raised by Indian History students, lovers and researchers that Indians' aren't interested in their history. Here is what the amazing Sanjeev Sanyal says. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jB3PrvUhg The genesis of this topic (Topic-How much of Indian History is really true) comes
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