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2024-12-23 13:57:30
Dance (naatya) has been very much part of Indian culure. Bharata Muni's 'Naatya Shaastra' (200 BCE or earlier) is the preminent text on 'dance.' [Link] "The Dancing Girl of Harappa" bronze sculpture (2500-1750 BCE) was excavated in 1926. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-0-1)
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2024-12-26 15:14:52
More than high-skill “Indian migrant,” it was the home-grown Biden administration that demanded those censorships. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(9-0-14) Related notes[11]
2024-12-27 15:29:27
There is no evidence to support the claim of any systematic “repression” of any Christian at the hands of Hindus in India in their nearly 2000-year history. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(19-0-0)
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2024-12-27 18:30:22
The Hindutva accusation is arbitrary. No one has developed a system to judge a scholar’s work on the parameters of Hindutva. “To use Hindutva as a smokescreen,” write Adluri and Bagchee, “is to instrumentalize real pain and suffering.” [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-0-1)
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2025-01-02 15:30:03
Indians have written plenty about their “history.” However, historiography, as understood by the West, is not the Indian/Hindu way of talking about the past. India has a rich itihasa-purana literature. Philosopher S.N. Balagangadhara (Balu) talks about it here briefly. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(21-3-5) Related notes[5]
2025-01-02 15:47:42
What the author calls “Arabic” is actually Hindu/Indian numeral system written from left to right. Arabic is written right to left. The numeral system, along with zero and decimal system, are Indian/Hindu contributions copied and then propagated to the West by the Arabs. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-0) Related notes[2]
2025-01-03 00:39:58
Nineteenth-century philologists argued that European languages were closest to PIE and hence superior in character and access to scientific knowledge. The discovery of Sanskrit and its rich heritage in forced German Indologists and philologists to reckon it as related to PIE. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(7-0-19) Related notes[3]