Before the British came to India, the Muslims of India were not eating Beef. All muslim rulers of India including Mughals had banned Cow Slaughter in their kingdoms. It was Robert Clive who started the first slaughter house in India at Calcutta with the intention of breaking the back of the prosperous Indian agriculture.

He called himself Turkmenbashi, which means leader of all Turkmens ie the people of his country. Not so bad, he was a leader after all. And he is popularly known with this name. Read on to know more.

The most popular sweetener in the world – Sugar – was invented in India. Prior to the introduction of Sugar in the west, the most popular sweetener in the western world was – HONEY!

In one of the temples of southern India, I happened to observe what otherwise most of us in India have been overlooking all the time. The human headed, lion bodied structure which we commonly find in a lot of Indian temples, especially in the South. What we overlook here is, this is same as the Sphinx of Egypt . The [...]

December 25! Merry Christmas! In the east we find thousands of great divine spiritual religious personalities who spoke about peace and love and this trend of Gandhi, Buddha etc continues even today in the form of Sri Sri Ravishankar etc, where as in the west Jesus Christ is the only person who spoke the language of peace and love, and [...]

August 7 1998 Hundreds of people were killed when simultaneous truck bombs exploded at the US embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. US had faced one of the largest terrorist attacks outside US. Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility to the attacks saying, it was in retaliation for the US invasion of [...]

This is a continuation of the series History Demystified . Click here to read the previous article of this series. The ancient Indian vedas (vedic texts) are the most ancient literature known in the world. Dating of the vedas and vedic culture The dates of these vedas, especially that of Rig Veda as we read in the text books today [...]

History is the biography of mankind. It is never complete, and will continue to be updated as tomorrows continue to vanish into yesterdays . And these yesterdays continue to influence and shape the tomorrows of mankind. History is the echo of past in the future. History is the reflex of future acted upon the past. So it is very important [...]

I was trying to search for some information about the nature of monkey like characters in Ramayana and any related research about these beings called vanars. Note that its not only monkey like beings, but also bear like beings that are mentioned in Ramayana. Given the ancient timescale of Ramayana occurring in Treta yuga, were these some kind of hominid [...]

In a country dominated by the word Gandhi, there are innumerable other unsung heroes of the freedom movement of this country. One such hero is Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh (born on September 28, 1907) was one of the most famous youth revolutionaries of the Indian Independence Movement, who at the very young age of 13 was a part of [...]

While the government of India and Archaeological Society of India (ASI) are blabbering left and right about Rama, Ramsethu and Ramayana without doing any proper research on the subject, and without even knowing any ABCD of Indian history, here is a simple yet powerful research done on the subject. Based on the astronomical dating of the events described in the [...]

More than 2700 years back a huge university existed in that ancient India where over 10,500 students from all across the world came for higher studies. This was the TakshaShila university of ancient India (wrongly spelled as Taxila today). During its times this university was the IIT and MIT of the world, where the students from all across the world [...]

The political scenario of a country in 2003 was as follows: The President is a Muslim The Prime Minister is a Hindu The Defense Minister is a Christian The Leader of Opposition is a Christian Four years later, the political scenario in the same country today is as follows: The President is a Hindu The Prime Minister is a Sikh [...]

The culture of the ancient Egyptian civilization does not exist any more!! The Sumerian civilization does not exist any more The Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Incas, Aztecs, none of these ancient civilizations exist today.. Even the Chinese is a Communist country today with great destruction of its Buddhist culture by the communist forces.. What exists and survives and thrives even today in [...]

Ashoka The Great… one of the greatest emperors of ancient India… Who reigned from 273 BCE to 232 BCE as a great Mauryan Emperor.. Ashoka means “without any sorrow” He was also called “Dev?n?mpriya” meaning the “one who is beloved of the Gods”. The famous science fiction writer, H G Wells once said about Ashoka, “ In the history of [...]

Cause: August 14, 1947 – The Partition of India Effect: September 11, 2001 – WTC Terrorist Strikes and its aftermath Yes, the root cause of terrorism in the name of islamic jehad which is affecting the entire world today can be traced back to the Partition of India. The Blunder In 1947 when the British were reluctant to grant independence [...]

Aryan Invasion Theory has been proved to be a myth and as a wrong theory long back. But let me explain in detail the actual history and dirty politics behind this theory. Note that this theory was used as a basis by Hitler to advocate his theory of the supremacy of the Aryan race and to mindlessly kill whom he [...]

Well known democratic fact: India is the world’s largest democracy with a population of over 1 billion. In other words, one in every six humans on this planet is an Indian! Averagely known democractic fact: America, the world’s strongest democracy today was discovered in 1492 AD when european countries sent sailors to discover a sea route to India ! Which [...]

I have been fed up repeatedly being asked the same silly question about caste system in Hinduism, so thought will write a post on it to clarify things once and for all. Caste system as it exists in modern hindu society is definitely bad. It is wrong to label a person as inferior or superior based on his birth. No [...]

I am fed up repeatedly hearing the totally illogical, stupid argument some people put forward saying “It was the british who created a united India, and before the british came, there was no concept of India at all!” Forget uniting, the British actually divided India into three pieces before they left in 1947! Let’s start with the very basics of [...]

‘Partition of India in 1947? Well thats what I believe was the biggest political blunder in modern world history. Look at the chain of events that follow this Historic Blunder: -> India gets divided in 1947 bcos of pressure from islamic fundamentalists, political opportunists and more than anything else by the British who fear that if undivided India would emerge [...]

Was the Mahabharatha war a nuclear war? The opinion of the great physicist oppenheimer about the description of the nuclear weapon and its aftermath effects in the Bhagavadgita.