CHENNAI: The Indus valley script, an enigma for scholars for over 130 years, has been deciphered by Dr S Kalyanaraman, a Chennai based scholar. Ever since the first Indus seal with script was discovered in 1870 by Alexander Cunningham, efforts were on to decipher the script. "The decipherment of the script is central to unraveling the true chronology and history of Indian civilization and culture," Dr Kalyanaraman told Haindava Keralam.
The Ancient Vedics seemed to have an obsession for precision as well as a fascination for large numbers. A combination such as this makes an excellent prerequisite for time keeping and for devising a useful and practical calendar. So, they turned to the sky and began to decipher the meaning behind the various cycles they observed. Let us see how they went about developing a calendar that would convey a lot of information merely by knowing the day of the month after constant observation of the sky both during the day and the night over centuries....
Israel has allowed Daystar, a Texas-based Christian evangelical TV channel, to telecast into Israeli homes and attempt to proselytize Israel?s five million Jews. Is this religious freedom or adding insult to the Jewish injury....
It is clear that much of what we learned in our school history books is suspect if not downright erroneous, starting from the chronology of ancient India to the postulation of an Aryan Invasion, the location of the ancient home of the Zoroastrian people, the dating of Chandra Gupta Maurya's reign, the dating of the Buddha himself, the embellishment of the Caste system by the Colonial overlord, the dating of the impregnation of Indic culture in countries of South East Asia to name a few. More importantly, the Eurocentric approach to the narration of the fascinating story of Indian History taken by English authors is substantially at variance with the facts and the history as we knew it prior to the arrival of the Europeans in the Indian subcontinent. We will do our best to peel the layers of the onion, but it is too large a task to be undertaken by a handful of individuals, especially as the narration of this history is firmly in the grip of the Marxists who are deeply ensconced in New Delhi and whose viewpoint is substantially in conformance with the story as told by the British. Why do Indian Marxists espouse a blatantly colonialist point of view ? There is more than one overriding reason, but we will illustrate one ...
If one asks an average Indic whether he has any comments on the debate regarding the origin of the Vedics, his first reaction might be that he was not aware there was a debate and as far as he could recall the Vedics had since the beginning of recorded history, populated an area roughly contiguous with present day Haryana and Uttaranchal. In other words (it is my suspicion that ) this topic is not exactly one that occupies center stage in the streets and living rooms of Mumbai and Kolkatta .However, this remains a subject with far reaching implications for the future of India. One example being the dialog that is taking place in India over the perceived inequalities among various classes of Indic society today, their causes and how they should be handled. One other point should be made regarding the consequences of such a hypothesis . The colonial overlord thereby made the implication very clearly that they were just the latest in a long line of conquerors and had as much right to be present as the descendants of the Vedics ,who would after all be now be regarded as conqueror much as the Normans conquered England....
