Archive for the ‘History’ Category
- Dec 093012 Comments
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!
- Jan 08176 Comments
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 [...] - Dec 072524 Comments
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 [...] - Dec 071616 Comments
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 [...] - Dec 071110 Comments
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 [...] - Nov 072510 Comments
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 [...] - Oct 07459 Comments
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 [...] - Sep 07282 Comments
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 [...]
- Sep 0716302 Comments
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 [...] - Sep 071120 Comments
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 [...] - Aug 072617 Comments
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 [...] - Aug 07146 Comments
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 [...] - Aug 07915 Comments
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 [...] - Jul 07306 Comments
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 [...] - Jun 0728242 Comments
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 [...]
- May 07312 Comments
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 [...] - May 072940 Comments
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 [...] - May 07932 Comments
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 [...] - Mar 07253 Comments
‘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 [...] - Nov 056No Comments
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.
