Pakistan is crumbling, Is India Prepared?
Reports from Pakistan indicate that institutions of the state are heading for collapse. The Indian leadership represented by the inept troika of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul seems indifferent, concerned about protecting More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
The collapse of the Aryan Invasion Theory
There is widespread misconception in India that all Western scholars support the Aryan invasion theory. Actually, it is minority view while the few still interested in ancient India have given up the AIT. Here is More...
The remote has become a neighbour
Column by M.J. Akbar Technology has liberated prejudice and its consequence, rumour, from accountability. When the village was still a mere village, and had not gone global, prejudice had a face and a name. This More...
Romila Thapar and the Study of Ancient India 2: History as propaganda
Column by Dilip K Chakrabarti (Edited with comments by N.S. Rajaram, Contributing Editor. This continues Professor Dilip Chakrabarti’s analysis of the motives and methodology of Romila Thapar and her colleagues.) Diluting More...
Vedic Sanskrit on Harappan seals
"The Deciphered Indus Script" by N Jha and N S Rajaram Ever since its discovery in 1921 the Harappan civilisation (also called Indus Valley civilisation) has been studied extensively by archaeologists, More...
Looking beyond the Indus Script: Story of Vedic Harappans
A decade since Jha and Rajaram presented their findings, there have been significant developments that show that the script was one piece of a larger picture that connects Harappan archaeology to the Vedic literature, More...
Linguistic Aspects of the Indo-European Urheimat Question
By Koenraad Elst When evidence from archaeology and Sanskrit text studies seems to contradict the theory of the entry of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family in India through the so-called More...
Determining the Age of Saraswat Community
Who are Saraswats? In India, there are at least five Brahmin communities who claim themselves as ‘Saraswat Brahmins’, including: Gaud Saraswat Brahmins, Chitrapur Saraswats, Rajapur/Bhalavalikar Saraswat Brahmins, More...
Conquering Afghanistan: What the West can learn from India
By Rakesh Krishnan If there’s one thing that really gets me worked up, it is this: the western media keeps peddling the fairy tale that no power – from Alexander 2300 years ago to Britain in the 19th century More...
