THIRD WAVE WEST 2: FROM LANGUAGE TO THOUGHT
The third wave 5000 years ago carried mathematics, horse training skills as well as names of deities, sacred symbols like svasti, and practices like yoga and meditation, to West Asia and Europe. This was accompanied More...
INDO-EUROPEANS ORIGINS 1: THE 200 YEAR-OLD QUESTION
Science has finally answered the 200 year-old question of why people from India to Iceland speak languages clearly related to one another. Natural history, not linguistics unlocks the puzzle of Indo-European origins. First 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...
A European look at the Aryan Myth
Book Review by N.S. Rajaram - Judged strictly on merit, the various Aryan theories rank among the shoddiest examples of scholarship, riddled with scientific contradictions and weighed down by political and racial 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...
