Courtesy: - rosehubTV / YouTube Channel The Belgian orientalist and indologist Koenraad Elst was with us, to tell his story. The writer of several books like, “The Saffron Swastika” and “Decolonizing Hindu Mind” talked about his childhood, his upbringing and his love for India, in this interview. He also answered several
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1SQsXrW5g&t=10s The other feature of Krishna deva Raya’s court was Ashta Diggajas. Ashta Diggajas are 8 elephants. I mean there is belief that you know there are 8 elephants which actually hold the earth in different directions. Like I told you the names Pundareeka, Vamana, Anjana, and of course Airavat, the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g0b4ukK7d8 The Bahmani rulers realised their constant fighting against each other was going to be beneficial to the Vijayanagara Empire. They realised the other thing also. On their own they could not defeat the Vijayanagara Empire. On their own, none of them could defeat the Vijayanagara Empire. So, they decided to
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqCQipG-MC0&t=8s Let’s come to the other part the architecture part. The Vijayanagara Empire, I told you, it was founded by different styles like you have the Hoysala style, the Pandya style and the Chola styles. What you call is, the Vijayanagara architecture was developed in its own distinct style. It was
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o09oID33Hw&t=9s The greatest achievements were in the field of irrigation and water supply. When everybody goes to Hampi they see it has great temples, great palaces and all but one achievement of Vijayanagara empire is not known to many. It was of irrigation and water supply network and this is I
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBySaPAfiJg&t=39s Understanding Bhagwan Shankaracharya is to understand the avatar parampara of Sanatana Dharma. Understanding Shankaracharya is to understand, ‘unity in diversity’. Understanding Shankaracharya is to understand, national integration, to understand social reform. Understanding Shankaracharya is to understand the revival of Sanatana Dharma. To Shankarachya parampara goes the credit of protecting Sanatana Dharma
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pBRf9GU1g Bhagwan Shankaracharya was 8 years old when he left his house. He took sanyas at the age of 9 years. After that what he accomplished cannot even be conceived of today. Between the ages of 12 and 16 years, Bhagwan Shankaracharya wrote commentaries on Prasthanatrayi, 3 types of Prasthaan and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ko_RDhLFc Bhagwan Shankaracharya knew that after his demise, India will have to face a physical war, ideological war, cultural war. He knew this very well. That is why in order to protect the 4 Vedas he set up 4 Amnaya Mutts in the 4 corners of this country. Amnaya means the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjTtF4gp7Y What is the problem if everybody became Muslim or Christian? Truth be told, there is no clear answer to this problem, especially with the conscious and aware Hindu. Be as it may, since a question has been raised, an answer needs to be given. The answer is that the Indian
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsl6nqwFmoI?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 Sri Aurobindo had put his views on this in a very pithy and clear manner. Not just once, but many times, when he was a political leader, when he used to edit a newspaper. I found an article written by around 1909, “Swaraj and Musalmaans”. He explains in a very
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFzCcbKkbtY?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 Swami Vivekanand had said, when one Hindu converts to Christianity or Islam, then not just one Hindu reduces but one more enemy of Hinduism gets born. Just this one line explains the complete philosophy, our duties. It’s been a 117 years since his death, but what have we done about
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obVouUw1KIs Dharampal went to London on some other work and he happened to spend a lot of time in libraries there and he came across archival material of extreme significance. A series of surveys commissioned by British government in 19th century to assess the level of indigenous education in India. So,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qJ2fOqe1w I'm often told that my, you know, it's a lot of people tell me, why do you study history, why do we need to know our pasts, you know, we need to concentrate on today, what can we do today, and look to the future, that's the thing, I get
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbcKs9dDxB8 So why did the British impose English on India? First reason was convenience: it started out with that because they didn't want to learn all the Indian languages, and they couldn't understand Indian languages. So, it was very convenient to have English speaking menials, English speaking people. So, this says,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OCO41T_lHM Now I am coming to the knowledge transfers from India to China. A large number of Sanskrit manuscripts were carried to China either by Chinese scholars or by Indian scholars hired by Chinese kings. So, we spoke earlier about Huan-Tsang and the I-Tsing. Those were the scholars who came from
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHu6EM_fu98 Now, I come to debating, which was an intrinsic part of Indian education. So, you can look I have chosen this picture of Adi Sankaradebating with MandanaMisra and look who is the judge it's a lady who is, who was a renowned scholar in her own right – Ubhaya Bharati
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_DdHPQqPpY&t=27s I also visited this place and then the only way we get to know what it looked like is when you read the autobiography of Huan-Tsang and I-Tsing, so what Huan-Tsang said is that, it was the most beautiful campus he had ever seen. It had a huge gate all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osdQQhuICKs Here's a map, I have tried to map out the universities in the ancient times until the eleventh or twelfth century and you know it was, there are so many universities you can see that it's completely, it's every part of India is covered so far. The oldest one we
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqeTF_6oyRg Rishi Kanva’s ashrama was not a single ashrama, it was a collection, an assemblage of hermitages of which he was the presiding rishi. So, a student would go to one in ashrama and specialize in one subject underthe Guru, then go to another ashrama, adjoining ashram, and get specialization in another
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vviYeA4fIPM&t=2393s So in the years that I have been living outside India, I get a lot of questions like: how is it that you Indians are motivated to study so hard? What is it that makes you study so hard? And another question I get very often is that why despite
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Source: - India First youTube Channel. ऐतिहासिक भाषण : जब कांग्रेस ने की थी परमाणु परीक्षण का भी विरोध, अटल जी ने दिया करारा जवाब
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The Srijan Foundation organized a talk of Sri. Ratnakar Sadasyula at New Delhi. The topic of the talk was ‘Vijayanagara: The City of Victory”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QruuNq0w_g Transcript: - What I try to do is just bring a, give us, you know try to give us a summary and a overall idea about Vijayanagara, Fine. So the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tsyzrDg2n4 Namaskar! So just talking about the mentoring on one of the forum, number of you might be aware of it. If not there is one forum called Bharat Rakshak Forum, some of you might know this, BRF. Of course you can have a handle there, it doesn't have to be your
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Source:- Sanskriti FB Page. The unique monolith sculpture of Khasa Matha monastery near Gurmitkal town, Yadgiri district, Karnataka. A shaft pillar with three cages; each of the cages holds a ball sculpted out of the same stone.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Kj89dL38g Charles Dellon has described that the palace of Inquisition was a dreaded, imposing building, that contained about 200 prison cells, many of which were dark and windowless. According to Dellon, the 2 inquisitors had their living quarters as well as their chapel in the palace. All inquisitors were nominated by
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2iYryABHbA How was the Court of Inquisition formed? The Court of Inquisition had 2 inquisitors, both were answerable only to the King. They were appointed only by the King of Portugal. They were not answerable to the Archbishops of Goa. They were not answerable even to the Viceroy of Goa who
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xA1iawkw2o So along with the systematic persecution of Hindus, the Portuguese embarked upon aggressive proselytization. But most people converted out of violence, avarice or fear. Richard Burton, the famous British traveler who had visited Goa during that time, had said that “fire and steel, dungeon and the rack, the rice pot
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8mrMoxzDKw&t=16s So the Portuguese had two kinds of policies. One was to make life so difficult for Hindus that being Hindu became a huge burden, a remaining Hindu became a huge burden and on the other hand if you became a Christian you had all sorts of incentives, you had financial
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1QQC6Oa-Q&t=44s And this is also the time Miguel Vaz actually went to Portugal, because he realized, even the proselytization was happening in Goa, it was not happening fast enough for his comfort. So he actually went to Portugal. He convinced the King and he got a diktat, saying that, “the regime should
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZY-JGq6Kw Goa was first ruled by the Kadambas. Then by the Vijayanagara empire for some time, then by Ibrahim Adil Shah. And when it was ruled by the Muslims, obviously there were a lot of Hindus in Goa at that point of time. But they were being discriminated against. So they
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nEseljBZ-c&t=1808s First of all I am deeply indebted to Rahul and Srijan Foundation for inviting me to give this talk on Goan inquisition. Because it is a very personal topic for me because I come from Goa and, almost every Goan being it a Hindu or Christians have had to bear
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttpuDIZdJg I would like to talk to you about transmission of this knowledge to Medieval Europe. In Toledo, if you remember there was a Christian Spain and Muslim Spain. Muslim Spain Cordoba was the capital; in the Christian side Toledo. At Toledo there was a monastery whose only job was to
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5mva8sfnI I would like to talk about Hipparchus and Trigonometry. Before that Surya Siddhanta contains chord tables. Aryabhatta composed, there should be only one ‘t’ over here, I apologize, it is a mistake, composed sign tables in 3.5° segments the Gian sine and cosine. Pingala and Chandasastra in 400 BCE worked
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsYksCadmY&t=38s Pythagoras who lived in this time frame, these gentlemen who are all westerns, Albert Burki and A. N. Marlow and G. R. S. Mead, each of them says that Pythagoras went to India where he learnt his philosophies, knowledge and other things. These are not Indic people saying this. These
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTQn7x0cL6w A collection of some of our greats, Brahmagupta who studied the works of Aryabhatta, Latadeva, Varahamihira and others. He wrote the Brahmasputa Siddhanta and Khanda Katkaya transmitted by the Arabs. I’ll show that later. Solutions of linear and quadratic equations and the rules for zero operations, positive and negative numbers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCKIhREdoiI Some selected discoveries. Rigvedic calendar 360 days, 12x30, but average is 365 days over 6 years because of correction month. Jyotishya Vedanga records astronomical data 4000 BCE. Sage Yajnavalkya 3000 BCE, propounded the heliocentric model. Satapata Brahmana, he measured the distance from earth to sun, earth to moon at 108
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1flVV3bSoyM&t=5s I would like to talk to you about the start of Kaliyuga. People at this point wonder what on earth am I doing, why am I talking about Kaliyuga? Well, it turns out that Kaliyuga is an absolute marker for all the Indian calendars. So, for example Aryabhatta gives his
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nysSn0t95Es We need to first set the stage, The Indian astronomical model. The model was one of nakshatra-s and raasi. Our ancient Indians they divided the sky into several segments of 30 1/3° segments. They started from the eastern horizon said 'let me divide the first 30 1/3° into the first
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9xHoMorfzs We want to find out what caused poverty in India? I would like to point out 2 works, this is Angus Madison who is a historical economist in Netherlands. He studied the economies of the world from the turn of the current era. One all the way to 2003, he
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9B7Vfq16W4 In recent times we have been told about the story of Keezhadi. Keezhadi has got an exciting story behind it. Archeologists had wanted to dig in Madurai. However, Madurai is like any other Indian city; settled, very expensive land, no place to obtain land for archaeology and so on. So
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW-hLl1TXfM I would like to talk to you about the work of Stephen Oppenheimer who in 2003 worked on the maternal mitochondrial DNA in an effort to establish who are we as a people, the homo sapeins. His story begins somewhere in 150,000 years ago but I prefer to start the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruB7DY2exhA Now coming to the other side which is also anti-state is the economic right. I don’t believe that libertarian economics is, you know their view point it against sustainable. I thinks that’s entering kind of a thing is absolute nonsense in my opinion. But right wing has started appearing to
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGyjvyXEKdc Thank you all for attending this talk today. So I will be talking about the Indian civilization and provocatively I have a title that there is an untold story there and I hope as I progress through the talk it will become clear that there is indeed something like that. Before
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t01QNlsf4rA We believe that freedom liberty and freedom of expressions are absolutely important. What we do say, however, is that absolute freedom; absolute liberty is nothing but anarchy. If everyone is allowed to do as they please that is just chaos and anarchy. As conservatives we believe that periods of stability
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkcqwKvxU0&t=49s There is a problem again in the right wing discourse if you see that you just don't discuss something which is extremely important, i.e., caste. The discussion of the caste only revolves in the right wing circle about what does caste meant in the Vedic period? Or what was the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79YwxJ0Y9R8 A big flaw in the right wing thought which I am coming to is that we have forgotten the ‘where did you originated’. The Savarkar, I thought, which I see as a systematic political thought in the right wing, aimed not at a village utopia. It was not arguing for an
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIBOkWYJr0 When the British came, they also did something. They started the systematic study of India. They started a systematic study of India, which we all understand as Indology and other things. And the British also started characterizing India from their own perspective, from their own, you know, prisms and other
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When we call ourselves conservative what do we actually mean? We mean four things in my understanding. First that we base to our opinions on the basis of facts and figures. We are not liberals to live in the fantasy world, we are not the left wing to believe in propaganda. As
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