Tag archive for ‘distinguished historian’
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By Team Folks On Thursday, May 24th, 2012
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SL Bhyrappa on Distorting History – Marxist Monopoly (Part 2)

Introduced and edited by Navaratna Rajaram, Contributing Editor, Folks Magazine Editor’s Note: In his previous column S.L. Bhyrappa recounted his experience while serving on a government appointed committee that More...

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By Team Folks On Monday, January 23rd, 2012
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Who Brought Freedom, Gandhi or Netaji?

Editor’s Word: Penned by Dr. NS Rajaram in the year 2010, this story is relevant even to this day. Enumerating several contributions of Netaji – as Subhas Chandra Bose was fondly known – it is More...

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By Team Folks On Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
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Nothing Vedic about ‘Vedic Mathematics’?

“India has made a significant contribution to mathematics including the place value system, and algebra and geometry. We should learn this history and not create myths like ‘Vedic Mathematics’.” More...

By Team Folks On Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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Demystifying the Sufis

History testifies the fact that most of the Sufi “saints” came to India either accompanying the invading armies of Islamic marauders or just followed them in their sweeping conquests. Hazrat Shaikh Khwaja Syed More...