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My own perspective is that you have a right over that heritage that is a living part your own life. Thus I do accept that America has a claim over the heritage of Greece and Rome: Their language and laws, which are a part of their lives, are derived from that history. As regards the Vedic...

Well, Pakistan was created on the basis of motivations that had nothing to do with pre-Islamic India.

It depends on to what extent the IVC was Vedic. The Vedic settlements on the banks of the Saraswati were certainly contemporaries of the IVC. I am prepared to believe that as the Vedic peoples expanded westwards, there was a certain degree of cultural mingling. Thus the IVC may have had Vedic...

India was not our name for ourselves, but it was the name used by outsiders for the entire subcontinent (see ancient Greek maps, for example). So yes, it is a shared name, and if Pakistan were to call itself "Western India", for example, I do not think we would have a right to object.

There are many Mumtaz Quadri type people running around.

Which makes it all the more ironic that one of the places that was targeted on 26/11 was a hospital. Let us not generalize, there are good people like Marvi Sirmed and others who are doing good work.

Here is a letter written by Iqbal in which he seems to dissociate himself from the idea of Pakistan. This is from a set of nine letters from Iqbal to the Oxford University professor Edward Thomas. They are part of the book "The Idea of Pakistan and Iqbal - A Disclaimer". Anyway, I don't know...

The Vedic literature can give us evidence, without having to take the texts at face value. Subjects like the chronology of the books of the Rig Veda, and correlating it with place and river names, are quite well studied. We can also compare the Rig Veda with the Avesta, focusing in particular on...

The potential certainly exists but the leadership of the past 65 years has been appalling and criminal.

A healthy society needs to preemptively and flexibly react to emerging scenarios. The Persian incursion around 500 BC was already a symptom of deficiency.

Actually the situation as regards education was not so bad as it is often made out to be. There is seminal work by Dharampal, titled "The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century", published I believe in the mid-1980's. Although this is about the pre-colonial period...

When one talks about the decline of a civilization, it is a complex thing. Why did the Romans or Egyptians decline. In India political power was generally not in the hands of Brahmins, though they probably did misuse their position of respect to inhibit social social mobility and foster...

The period around 500 AD was a dark age in many locations. India was in the grip of social evils which were hollowing out the strength of the civilization. The Romans were in trouble and Europe would also go through a dark age of misery and superstition. In the middle east an aggressive new...

Great. The "Brahminical empire" strikes back.

(sigh) ... try a search for academic papers talking about "proto-Indo-European" haplogroups. You may even find data about distributions in Adivasi groups, including South Indian Adivasi groups.

Vacuous personal remarks ignored. We're talking evolved kingdoms with centuries or perhaps millenia of history, mentioned in the Mahabharata and Ramayana, which were part of a larger civilization with a strong sense of self-identity, very distinct from marauding Mlechhas.

Whether you take Saraswati archeology, the Vedic literature, or genetic studies (diversity of markers) - they all point to a direction that invalidates your theory. (BTW, in genetic studies, diversity does strongly suggest the direction of population movements.)

Ultimately everybody is from Africa, it is said.

As far as I am concerned my motivation for looking at the subject is to get at the facts, on the basis of credible evidence. Yes there were two races, but as per genetic studies the ANIs and ASIs have been around for many millenia.

Even in that case you would not have diversity of "Aryan" markers in India being higher than in the alleged homelands. Besides the mountain of other evidence.