Another great “archeological discovery”:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=179977 in India
bq. A rare Tamil Brahmi inscription, dating back to third century BC, engraved in a cave where early Jain monks were said to have resided, has been recently discovered by epigraphists of the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department, at Arittapatti village, about 20 km from here.
During the 3rd century there was a migration of Jains from North India to the south. The most prominent of them was the Chandra Gupta Maurya. After establishing the first empire in India, he retired to a Jain establishment in Karnataka, where he died by starving.
Uttar Pradesh Archeology Dept has launched a very professional looking “website”:http://www.uparchaeology.org
bq. Did you know that the tradition of using reetha, shikakai and anwala as herbal shampoo in India, goes back by 5,000 years? Or for that matter, the ‘Namaskaar’ mudra is 4,000 years old. All this and much more is now be available on the website of the UP State Archaeological Department
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Blog Mela #28
“Mahesh Shantaram”:http://www.techrose.org/filtercoffee/archives/000101.html is a very creative person. Look at how he has presented the “28th Blog Mela”:http://www.techrose.org/filtercoffee/mela28/. This is what Dave Barry would call “Shock and Awwwwww”:http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/6700918.htm.
Book Review: A Portrait of Egypt
Few months back, browsing in a bookstore, I saw a book “Pakistan”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374528861/jksobservat-20 by Book Review: PakistanWeaver. I looked up in my library and put a request for the book. Till that book came, I thought I would read some other books by the same author and that’s how I picked up “A Portrait of Egypt”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374527105/jksobservat-20
The subtitle of the book is “A Journey through the world of militant islam” and the author travels to meet various islamic militants who want to bring Egypt under Shariat. The politics becomes interesting, something similar to Pakistan, where military rulers use the help of fundamentalists to remain in power without succumbing to their influence.
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We Remember
bq. “Today our nation remembers. We remember a sad and terrible day, September the 11th, 2001. We remember lives lost. We remember the heroic deeds. We remember the compassion and the decency of our fellow citizens on that terrible day,”
President of United States
More on Saraswati river civilization
bq. Instead of debating and harping on the fictitious Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent, that was purely a myth perpetrated by British and foreign scholars for vested interests, the present crop of scholars and historians should rewrite history and portray India’s grand cultural past in the light of huge evidences on Harappan civilisation
This was “the opinion”:http://www.sulekha.com/redirectnh.asp?cid=316646 of Michel Danino, an Indologist who is studying the Saraswati civilization. Among the questions that remain unaswered are the chronological sequence between the vedic culture and the Saraswati river culture.
bq. That means if Rig Veda pre-dated the Indus civilisation, how come we do not have any literary samples or evidence of dialects of the Indus people, whereas Vedic hymns or mantras are still being preserved intact to this day? Or did Vedic age run at the same time with Indus-Sarasvathi in some other parts of the Indian continent, may be in Himalayan ranges?
There are lot of archaeological excavations happening along the path of the Saraswati river. “Adi Badri”:https://varnam.org/archives/000195.html and the “Kutch”:https://varnam.org/archives/000171.html have given us lot of new evidence.
Update: “Major anthropology find reported in India”:http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030908-025602-5658r.htm (via “Shanti”:http://www.madhoo.com/archives/002854.php#002854)
Books
* "I am an open book, everyone knows everything about me":http://in.rediff.com/movies/2003/sep/08int.htm – Asha Bhosle
* "I am like an open book":http://sify.com/hindi/fullstory.php?id=13244391 – Abhishek Bachchan
I think I am a closed book.
Welcome to India, Mr. Sharon
So far the relationship had been in secret.
bq. Prime Minister Moraji Desai invited Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan for secret talks in 1977. Dayan, whose face was well known at the time because of an eye patch, masqueraded on the flight there, recalled Naftali Lavi who had been his spokesman. They returned empty handed.
bq. During clashes with Pakistan, India secretly asked Israel for weapons. It sought mortars and mortar bombs without Israeli markings, got them, and publicly continued to condemn Israel, Yegar confirmed.
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Happy Onam
We Malayalis celebrate only few festivals and the most important one is Onam, which is today. Jivha has a “detailed post”:http://www.jivha.com/blog/archives/000427.html explaining the traditions and customs of this festival
Communist Manifesto
“The Communist Party of India”:http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20030901115015&Title=Top+Stories&rLink=0 has taken the occasion of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to India to prove that they are just a bunch of clowns.
bq. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Sharon’s government was synonymous with the repression of the Palestinian people and “brazen” attempts to legitimise the occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories.
bq. “Such a visitor is not welcome to India,” CPI-M politburo member Prakash Karat told IANS. “We have asked all democratic sections and secular minded parties such as Samajwadi Party to join us in protesting against Sharon’s visit.”
Now only if Prakash Karat had access to Google, or even simpler, talked to Jyoti Basu he would not have said this. “Read this article”:http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/06/30/stories/0230000b.htm in The Hindu from the year 2000.
bq. CALCUTTA, JUNE 29. The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr. Jyoti Basu today left here for Tel-Aviv on a week-long trip to Israel- the first-ever visit to the Jewish State by a senior Indian Communist leader.
bq. Officials said Basu’s visit to Israel at the head of a 25-member business delegation from West Bengal was aimed at seeking investment opportunities in the State and collaboration in agriculture development.
Communist Manifesto: We hate you, but we need your money.
Blog Mela #27
The “27th Blog Mela”:http://www.jivha.com/blog/archives/000426.html is up at Jivha’s place. A lot of nominations this time. The next one will be hosted by “Mahesh Shantaram”:http://techrose.org/filtercoffee/
Shanti has created a permanent URL for the Blog Mela. So bookmark “http://realwomenonline.com/blogmela”:http://realwomenonline.com/blogmela.