Greek Thoughts, Indian Roots?
A few weeks ago, I came across Sanjeev Sabhlok’s article on how (and why) the ideas of liberty – so celebrated in the western world today – may actually have had their origins in...
Category: Distortions, Misrepresentations about India
Is Sanskrit really a “Indo-European” language?
Thanks to Dr Kalyananraman-ji for alerting me to this. In this well-argued and researched essay titled, Colonial Constructs about Indian Languages, Shishir Thadani explains why there may be a lot more in common between...
The Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilisation – More Distortions, More Un-Truths
This post is essentially a collection of excerpts from three recent articles/reports on the Saraswati-Sindhu civilisation beginning with a list of five questions that were asked of Prof. Michael Witzel. Many of you must...
Of “Argumentative Indians” and “Functional Anarchy”
This post is really an extract from a discussion on one of the Yahoo! groups I subscribe to. The discussion was triggered by an email from Prof. Michael Witzel in which he wrote (amongst...
Why do we have an Aurangzeb Road in Delhi?
My wife asked this question yesterday while we were discussing history. I pondered for a moment but could not come up with a good answer. I also realised that I was not aware of...
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