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Tag Archives: India
The turning of the yugacakra
As the wheel turns, what goes up comes down and what is down comes up, again and again. There is a symmetry to the process in the downward and the upward movements, albeit in opposite directions. The old Hindus, right … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics
Tagged American, China, Geopolitics, Hindu, Hindu knowledge, India, Japan, Russia
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Huns, Uralics, and empires of the steppe
A map by Savelyev et al. for the geographic orientation of the reader of the below article. The Huns of Europe “The lord of the Huns, King Attila, born of his father Mundzuk, lord of the bravest tribes, who with … Continue reading
Some talks at the Indic Today portal
We had a chat with with C Surendranath, Contributing Editor and (in part with) Yogini Deshpande, Editor in Chief of Indic Today. It is divided into four parts: 1) https://www.indictoday.com/videos/manasataramgini-civilization-counter-religion-continuity-collapse-i/ A few clarifications for this part: 1) We do not … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History, Politics
Tagged Abrahamism, Abrahamistic vandalism, ancient Hindu thought, China, Ching, Chinggis Khan, Hindu, India, Japan, religion, Russia, world history, World War 2
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Huntington and the clash: 21 years later
This note is part biographical and part survey of the major geopolitical abstractions that may be gleaned from the events in the past 21 years. Perhaps, there is nothing much of substance in this note but an uninformed Hindu might … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History, Life, Politics
Tagged Abrahamism, Abrahamistic vandalism, Chinese belligerence, Chinese incursion, clash of civilizations, Hindu, India, mlechCha, war
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Some (geo)political talk
A political bloviation follows: We must preface this by stating we do not have any affiliation to the party currently ruling India or the RSS and actually have no specific interest at all in electoral politics in India or elsewhere. … Continue reading
Cows, horses, sheep and goats
It goes without saying that humans are what they are today because of cows, horses, sheep and goats. Hindu civilization in particular is in the very least the product for the first two, while remaining two contributed to it from … Continue reading
Posted in History, Scientific ramblings
Tagged cattle, climate, cows, goats, horses, India, Mongolia, Mongols, pastoralism, sheep
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Fraudulent science by Indians: some really bad news
Around 2011 we were approached by a researcher of Indian origin for a collaboration in biochemistry regarding a family of proteins whose biochemical functions we had uncovered. After more than an year of dealing with him, it became clear that … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Politics, Scientific ramblings
Tagged bad ideas, bad research, cancer biology fraud, fraud, fraudulent chromatin remodelers, fraudulent enhancer protein interactions, fraudulent methylated histone binding proteins, fraudulent protein-protein interactions, Hindu diaspora, India, small RNA fraud
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Mongolica: The Tangut empire
In the early 1100s of the CE Rtsa-mi lotsawa Sangs-rgyas grags-pa was in Nālandā, India, to study and transmit the latest that the tāntrika strain of Bauddha-mata had to offer. Within a century both his world and that of his … Continue reading
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Tagged Army of Islam, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, Central Asia, China, Chinese belligerence, Chinggis Khan, India, Islamic, Islamic Vandalism, Mongol religion, Mongolia, Mongols, religion, Tibet, TIbetans
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Cricket in pictures
We may say that cricket has nearly passed us by. In our youth we played and watched the game quite a bit. While in secondary school we were fairly interested in cricket statistics. The sources for statistics were not easily … Continue reading
A brief overview of the last campaign of Chingiz Khan and the issue of succession in the Mongol empire
Succession is always an important issue in history. The legacy of a mighty ruler and/or founder of an empire might quickly unravel if the issue of succession is left unresolved. In Hindu history the Gupta-s were marked with glory because … Continue reading
A Political roundup August 15 2018
As I remarked to a friend, much of the stuff in (geo)politics which is relevant to us is what we have predicted before based on the relatively straightforward model of mleccha-marūnmattābhisaṃdhi i.e. the anti-heathen coalition of those infected by Abrahamistic … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrahamism, China, Chinese belligerence, India, political realism
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A brief note on some new developments regarding the genomics of Indians
When we wrote a previous article on this matter we had stated that new data will alter the details of our understanding of picture discussed therein. Indeed, two new manuscripts which were deposited in the past month by McColl et … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Scientific ramblings
Tagged ancient India, Aryan, Aryan Invasion, genetics, India, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
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Mongolica: Knowledge preservation and generation, Bolad Aqa and the like
We had earlier written an essay on the preservation and production of synthetic knowledge by the Chingizid Mongols. Here we discuss a few additional points in that regard. It is clear that throughout the Chingizid clan there was a certain … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, buddhism, China, Chinggis Khan, history of science, India, Iran, Mongol, Mongol religion, Mongolia, Mongols
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A superficial look at national population density and some life history features
Over the years we have repeatedly checked out various collections of data pertaining to the human condition in the same manner as we attempted to apprehend scientific data. We have wondered whether to write on them in any detail. We … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, city states, India, IQ, Japan, life expectancy, population density, statistics
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Some words on “para-Rāmāyāṇa-s”-I
I use the hybrid Greek-Sanskrit word para-rāmāyāṇa for all rāma-kathā-s other than that of Vālmīki. These span a great diversity of literature going back to relatively early times in Indo-Aryan tradition. Lots of people have said a lot of things … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Hindu thought, epics, Hindu, India, Indo-Aryan, mahAbharata, rAmAyaNa
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Nālika-s
The first week of college had ended. Vidrum was returning from an eatery with his new friend Manjukeshi after an early supper. The two of them were rather surprised by the ferocious competitiveness of their classmates. Some refused to discuss … Continue reading
A commentary on the vairin-s and the like of Viṣṇuśarman’s tradition
In one sense Viṣṇuśarman’s political presentation was nothing short of revolutionary. One may rightly ask: why so? One could say after all he was merely encapsulating in tales the principles already laid out by the ancient ārya-s and thoroughly presented … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Hindu thought, conflicts, enemies, Hindu, India, pancatantra, panchatantra
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Food and drink at the sea-side bacchanal of the yadu-s
Sections 2.88-89 of the Harivaṃśa (Viṣṇuparvan) gives a graphic description of the bacchanal of the yadu-s at the sea-side or their celebration of the samudrotsava. It has a beautiful ring to it and gives a feel for the festive culinary … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Hindu thought, feasting, Hindu, India, India food, Indian liquors, Indo-Aryan, yAdava, yadu
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A note on lost Śaiva centers: consideration of examples from Magadha and Vaṅga
To be read in conjunction with this handout: Harihara in the Indosphere One of the poorly understood but immensely important facets of Hindu history is the role of the saiddhāntika Śaiva-s in the cultural unification of the Indosphere within the … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Hindu thought, Anti-Hindu, Army of Islam, Hindu, history, India, medieval Hindu literature, Mohammedanism, rudra, saiva, shaiva, shiva, tantra
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Matters of religion-1
Indrasena had arrived at the house of Somakhya and Lootika for learning mysterious matters of religion. Entering their fire-room he saw Somakhya seated beside the square altar on a mat of bovine skin and Lootika seated beside the circular altar … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Hindu thought, Hindu, India, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Story
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A reiteration regarding the heart of the fundamental conflict
We are somewhat zealous in recycling unused bits of writing lending a certain pleonastic touch to the material presented here. We are placing herewith a bit of unused writing concerning the topic on which we have just written a note, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrahamism, ancient Hindu thought, Aryan Invasion, Hindu, India, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European
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śūlapuruṣa-catvārakam-3: A method for the analysis of history
Somakhya, standing beside a pillar outside his university department, glanced at his watch with a tinge of irritation as he waited for Lootika to show up. She was to bring her sister Vrishchika from the medical school, which was some … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Hindu thought, Anti-Hindu, Anti-India, Darwin, Geopolitics, Germans, history, homology, India, Nietzsche, philosophy, Spengler, Story
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World War 2 and the like
Right away we should state that there is going to be some dilation – hence “the like”. “In my generation, we lived under the impression that the term patriotism was poisoned during Nazi times. German history, unlike American or French … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Germany, India, Japan, Poland, Russia, World War 2
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Subhas Chandra Bose: An autobiographical reminiscence
By the time we were between the seven and eight years of age we had acquired some elements of the history our people from our parents: We knew of the coming of the ārya-s and the relationship of Indo-Aryan languages … Continue reading
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Tagged English tyranny, India, Indian National Army, Subhas Chandra Bose
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The domain of India according to bhāskararāya-makhīndra
bhāskararāya was one of the greatest mantravādin-s of all times, who perhaps was only rivaled by the illustrious abhinavagupta or aghoraśiva deśika, who in times closer to our own was verily like how a brāhmaṇa sage of the time of … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Hindu thought, greater India, India, tantra
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A visitation and ruminations
Most of our fellow travelers in school and college, with some exceptions occasionally alluded to in some form on these pages, were boring people to us. Their interests, political views or aspirations did not overlap seriously with our own. However, … Continue reading
The first responders and the paradox of Maoism
We have to admit that there is nothing very new in these episodic geopolitical musings; nevertheless, we engage in revisiting these themes for it is perhaps away of registering the connection between history which is being made and history which … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglosphere, BJP, British Empire, China, Christian Vandalism, Hazare, Hindu struggle against Christism, India, Japan, Kejriwal, Mohammedanism, NDA, OSS, subversion, UPA
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The successors of the pANDu-s in the national memory of bhArata-s and bhoTa-s and related discursions
As per the mahAbharata, the great war on the kuru field came to a conclusion with the smashing of duryodhana’s thighs by bhIma. While balarAma wanted to kill bhIma for unfairly defeating the kuru prince in the gadAyuddha, kR^iShNa convinced … Continue reading
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Tagged buddhism, China, Harshavardhana, Hindu, India, Khotan, mahAbharata, Songtsen Gampo, Taizong, Tibet, Yarlung
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The tale of the two classes of vaNij-s
It is with some trepidation that we discuss the vaNij-s for, belonging to the head of the puruSha, we are removed from the arts and the ways of theirs. But this is more a discussion on how their history played … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Hindu, Austronesians, brahmana, cannibals, Central Asia, economy, Fiji, Hindu diaspora, HIndu merchants, India, kShatriya, Scott Levi, vaiShya, vaNij
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The moment of silence
In the days long past, when we were still young, we did not like the 15th Aug holiday very much – it was not really a full holiday for we had to attend school for a few hours of faux … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Politics
Tagged Anglosphere, August 15th, China, Geopolitics, India, Japan, leukosphere
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A brief note on spies, subversionists, white indologists and “regional studies”
While today the US, as the leader of the leukosphere, is renowned for its intelligence and subversion operations all over the world, it has acquired this capability relatively recently in historical terms. Although the FBI carried out various intelligence and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Hindu, Anti-India, Columbia, Geopolitics, Gujarat, independence, India, indology, Ivy League, NGO, Norman Brown, Penn, spies, subversion
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Beetles and men: some glimpses of history through the contemporary lens
The tale of poisoned arrows The bushmen clans generally used to not fight each other because most adult males are armed with arrows that have been smeared with deadly toxins. However, when from the mid-1600s the Dutch started intruding into … Continue reading
Posted in History, Scientific ramblings
Tagged archaeology, arrow toxins, arthashAstra, atharvaveda, beetles, bushmen, carabid, chrysomelid, Egypt, India, parasitoid, poison, Rigveda, Scarabid, venom, war
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Some notes on the shaiva temple celebrations and an excursus on the fishing, diving and hunting festivals of rudra
An integral aspect of the life of the post-Vedic Hindu community was participation in the temple celebrations. It was considered highly beneficial in the tAntrika tradition, both to the individual and the community, and helps explain the basic premises of … Continue reading
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Tagged festival, Hindu, Hindu ritual, idols, images, India, procession, ritual, saiva, shaiva, temple
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The Indo-Australian connection thickens
The arrival of the European Christians in Australia was a catastrophic event for the aboriginal peoples of that island. They never recovered from that encounter and today eke out a shambolic and reduced existence, almost as though the karma-phala of … Continue reading
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Tagged aborigines, Australia, Carpentarians, dingo, direct journey, India, Indus Mariners, Indus Valley, maritime, microliths, negrito, Sahul
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The conversion
It was many many moons ago. We were seated upon the wall near the viShTa-parvata when the kR^iShNa-shUdra materialized in front of us. He was looking agitated. Just a few days before the English teacher had asked the class to … Continue reading
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Tagged breakup of India, Hindu, India, politics, secularism, terrorist states
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niShAda-s and shabara-s of jambudvIpa: What you see is what it is
The vast land of jambudvIpa is home to many different types of tribal people. They were noted right from the times of the ancient Hindu texts. The R^igveda hardly mentions any of them, but one that is mentioned is kIkaTa. … Continue reading
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Tagged Austro-Asiatic, Bhunjia, genetics, Ho, India, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Kharia, Mawasi, Munda, Savara, tribal
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