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This was not about you, it was about Modi and the Sangh Parivar. Please let us not waste time trading information about the bigotry of the Sangh Parivar. There are very serious lessons in it for observers of the Indian situation. Your not really caring is fine. The difficulty with your...

Why is there no face-palm emoji? OOI. My advice is to ignore everybody other than @Paitoo and @STREANH .

Which Civilisation was this? Not the IVC, I hope. Confusing post. What is it trying to say? 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙 Just for laughs, look up Parama Kamboja from the battle scenes. Kamboja is a surname still prized in the north-west. May the merciful heavens help me to remain sane. They are Gowdas, btw...

I am a little confused. Actually, more than a little. Why am I tagged, and what is expected of me? I seem to have answered this somewhere, perhaps outside PDF. In the Rg Veda, and, indirectly, in the two major epics. There was no existing system of writing. However, that stops nobody from...

We obviously have vastly differing definitions of 'absolute power'. An electoral majority never, ever yields absolute power. Even the term absolute power is a quotation, and refers to a dark period of our history.

And what is he doing different? On a day-to-day basis, the central agencies have been knocking at midnight on the doors of anybody even remotely connected to any movement against his wishes. He has not shoved these measures through our collective throats because a bully is also a coward. His...

Facts only? Announced overnight. Announced without consultations with the RBI (except a cursory conversation that revealed that institution's horror). Complete lack of preparation for the sudden freezing of cash. Failure to enable handling of the new Rs. 2,000 notes by ATMs. Severe (and...

Only in the earliest scriptural writings and portions of the epics, and all of those mentions have to be deconstructed in literary, sociological and psychological terms to find these battles in any comprehensible terms.

Can't be done as we deal with other historical events. The age of the language used in the narratives has also been examined very carefully. The entire text of the Geeta, for instance, was found to be an interpolation - this was discovered by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, later...

Donner und Blitzen! This is already fairly reliably established.

They are. They have progressed the furthest in depravity. And bigotry. This is not Jinnah's Gujarat. This is not Gandhi's Gujarat. This is not Patel's Gujarat. This is, as Superman fans will 'get' immediately, the Bizarro version of that ill-fated place.

This comment is so complete that adding to it would minimise it. Great stuff.

Nobody ever had absolute power. Only the present bunch of hoodlums and bigots is trying to achieve it. It never fails to surprise me how a majority community spends its time whining about the possible oppression they will face, in future, from a minority that is supposed to suddenly bloat in...

👍👍👍👍👍 Oh, the Pakistani constitution! Sorry, was puzzled at the Indian constitution needing to be separated from religion. As American kids put it, 'my bad'.

The beauty of our polity USED TO BE that we could express different and opposing opinions, all over a cup of warm and mutually supportive tea. That is no longer possible. We all know who and why this has happened. You don't agree? Why not? I disagree with jamahir, and deeply disagree with the...

Completely agree. What you mean by Proto-Indo-Iranic is not clear, but if that were to be Indo-Iranic, that would be quite acceptable.

THAT is different. 👍

You are not from the Indus Valley. You are from a mix of the IVC population with at least five subsequent incoming ethnic groups.

Perhaps R&AW getting an idea would be an excellent starting point. Not the most intelligent response on record.

Far less a religious component..... Will someone remind the resident idiot that the Mahabharata is an epic, and not an history? That means that the whole of India would have spoken a Dravidian language, with an Austric sub-layer. You are really testing the limits of tolerance.