INDO-EUROPEANS 2: NATURAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGES

All non-African humans and their languages can be traced to about a thousand individuals in South Asia 60,000 years ago. Two events during the Ice Age, a gene mutation and a major natural catastrophe played a pivotal More...

Teaching History: Dos and Don’ts

It is now a time worn cliché that the teaching of Indian history has been distorted. The real question is how to correct it. A committed teacher has taken in important by showing how to go about doing it. Navaratna More...

Swamy and his Harvard Enemies: The Real Story (Part 2)

“Indology is an anachronism with colonial and racist roots that has outlived its purpose. India Studies should outgrow Indology if it hopes to be relevant and not join Indology in the dustbin of history.” NS More...

Myth as History and History as Myth

Dr. N.S. Rajaram For reasons we need not go into at the present time, some myths are projected as history and while some others, though factual are relegated to the level of myths. This is particularly the case More...