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20 Sep 2009
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| From Indus to India |
From Indus to India
Dilip K Chakrabarty
Professor K. P.N.Rao and his associates assert, on the basis of their recently published computer studies on the Indus script, that this script has statistical regularities which are in line with other natural languages. Thus, the various signs of the Indus script cannot be explained away as only symbols of different sorts. The latter opinion was expressed by an American group sometime back and apparently taken seriously enough by Rao and his colleagues to undertake their ow...
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| Distortion of Indian History for Muslim appeasement: Part 6C |
Distortion of Indian History for Muslim appeasement: Part 6C
Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari
It has been mentioned in the previous article that, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Shah Jahan floated a global tender and the respondents were asked to submit designs and wooden models along with the tender. Innumerable plans with models had been received by the authorities and at last, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "The plan was prepared by a council of architects from India , Persia , Central Asia and beyond and the credit for the final plan ...
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| Myth of MF Hussain’s Innocence |
Myth of Innocence of MF Hussain
Amba Charan Vashishtha
On September 17 this year, well-wishers and admirers of renowned painter M. F. Hussain celebrated his birthday in Delhi. Everybody who wishes to celebrate his birthday has every right to do so.Hussain's supporters have been bemoaning why "India's Pablo Picasso" is away from his motherland. This comparison is irrelevant and incongruous. Mr. Hussain has nothing in common with Picasso except that the former too is a painter. These enthusiasts seem ignorant of the fact that Picasso rose against tyranny by the establishment or in defence of democracy. Hussain is no...
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| A Rejoinder to Meera Nanda’s “Rush Hour of the Gods” | A Rejoinder to Meera Nanda’s “Rush Hour of the Gods”
 Shiv Shakti
The allegation against the Indian state is not only captious but mischievous too. Such blatantly false charges can be leveled only by the ‘secularists' not willing to accept the existing ground realities. In their utter desperation they refuse to understand the pro-minority tilt in the Indian politics that has unleashed the phenomenon like "minoritysm", "vote-bank politics" and "politics of minority appeasement". The pro-minority nature of Indian politics granting special status to minorities is an accepted fact today. ‘Secularists' like M...
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| Sivaya Subramuniaswami’s Teaching and Quranic Lessons | Sivaya Subramuniaswami’s Teaching and Quranic Lessons
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
Gurudeva was born in California and grew up near Lake Tahoe. Orphaned at age 11, he was raised by a family friend who had spent years in India and who brought him into the culture and beliefs of Hinduism. Trained in classical Eastern and Western dance and in the disciplines of yoga, he became the premier danseur of the San Francisco Ballet Company at age 19. Then, at the height of his career, he suddenly renounced the world.In 1947, as a young man of 20, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniaswami journeyed from the USA to India and Sri Lanka and two years later was initia...
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