Dating MahABhArat…Excerpts
Excerpts from a well-researched attempt at dating the MahABhArat… (published Feb ’04 in the Daily Pioneer) *** Excerpts Begin *** …For thousands of years, we have believed in the divinity of Shri Krishna. For...
Category: Indian History
Spot the H-word
Thanks to Sh Nachiketa Tiwari for spotting this and Sh Kak for emailing it to me. Although this is a fairly long excerpt from an exchange of emails re. learning Sanskrit, pl. try and read in full. It shows...
Who was the real “Ashoka the Great”?
To those of us whose image of “Samraat” Ashoka (Ashoka the Great) has been shaped by Amar Chitra Katha or the eponymous movie, it will come as a suprise that there may actually have...
On “AIT”, Islamic Invasions and “Whitewashing History”
I recently came across The Whitewashing of History, by Nithin Sridhar. Nitin has kindly agreed to let me reproduce the article on this blog. Those of you who are interested in history will find...
Of Rs 50,000 and loss of credibility…
This is a sad story of what happened to a meeting arranged with a sense of purpose and responsibility by Vigil in Chennai to discuss Gautier’s exhibition and the administration’s response to it. Against the...
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