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There is a good collection of books (including several by Ram Swarup and Sitaram Goel) here - Voice of Dharma Some works of Shourie - (1) A review of his book "Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud" - IndiaStar -- Arun Shourie, "Eminent Historians," reviewed by C.J.S...

Incidentally, the latest Re the Samjhauta case - Lt Colonel Purohit: Did the Army sell short an effective officer? | NDTV.com Malegaon blast: Lt Col Purohit is not a terrorist, say witnesses - India News - IBNLive Actually the effort to blame Purohit for Malgaon was always low on...

If by Parivar you mean RSS types then they are pretty tame. They have been doing some good work in tribal areas but they seem to be intellectually moribund. If you have read the work of folks like Ram Swarup and Sitaram Goel, then that is a breath of fresh air. Arun Shourie is pretty good too...

The LTTE were indeed a threat to India also. There is a lot of data in books by Rajiv Malhotra.

Yes Dharma is an essential ingredient of the idea of India, but that does not make things insecure at all. In fact, we see people all over the world gradually becoming more Dharmic, sometimes even without recognizing the process. U.S. Views on God and Life Are Turning Hindu - Newsweek and The...

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If you are spending so much money to build a bridge might as well use trains instead of buses.

Submerged settlements off the coast of Dwarka and off Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu date back to the end of the last ice age, i.e. around 8000 BC.

Actually Shiv stands for Shivaji. But that is also a misuse of Shivaji's name. Shivaji was very smart and very tough. Thackeray is a corrupt idiot. Maybe better than Sonia Gandhi, but still useless.

Lord Shiva's warriors? OP is inventing his own titles. Anyway, Shiv Sena are bunch of no-good politicians, just like the Congress.

This thread is somewhat unfair, if you start making videos about less informed people in any country it could look worse.

Have to admire the sense of proportion and balance, a work of art. Fortunately it seems to have escaped vandalism by invaders. Most of the art you find in South Asia today is defaced, with the latest casualty being the Bamiyan Buddhas.

"Be like the ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched." - Kabir (and others) Muddled contradictions may abound in the words of the "wise", but we rapidly sift through, correlate, and take that which is Graahya.

Thanks, I had not heard of the Rig Vedic Triksi-Ikshwakus.

I would say that the common Muslim convert of say 4 centuries years ago continued to use his native Sanskritic vocabulary. The profuse infusion of foreign vocabulary was largely limited to the aristocratic class and their hangers-on.

Nothing "obvious" that some particular clan would be mentioned or not mentioned. It may well be that the text itself focuses on some clans and some geographical areas (in this case the Puru clan, settled on the banks of the Saraswati), regardless of the preeminence other contemporary clans in...

Re Ikshwakus - besides the Ramayana and Mahabharata we also have the Jain literature. The 23rd Tirthankara, Parsvanath, is dated to around 877 BC, and as per Jain literature, their earlier Tirthankaras were from the Ikshwaku clan. Buddhist texts also say that the ancestors of the Buddha were...

As per legends recorded around 900 BC (Mahabharata), they were preeminent. Also in the Ramayana, which is older than the Mahabharata. quite

That was not my assumption - I was only saying that the Rig Veda may be more focused on some clans rather than others, so cannot give us an overall picture.

It may be that the Rig Veda does not reflect the conditions in the Indic civilization of that time as a whole. For example, the pre-eminent Kshatriya dynasty of ancient India were the Ikshwakus, the "solar warrior" dynasty. However, that finds only a very peripheral mention in the Rig Veda. The...