01-11-2009, 12:57 PM
Dr. Vepa's conference has given major takleef to our friend Michael Witzel. This is what he writes:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For your weekend amusement, though the repeated insistence on
"rewriting" of Indian history is really ... boring:
See: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>
"US-based engineer turned historian, Dr Vepa" says it all...
Like our long time friends mathematician Rajaram, bank employees Dr.
K. and Talageri, electric engineering Prof. S. Kak, medical
technician V. Agarwal (M.Sc.), astrologers like David Fawley
("Vamedeva") etc. etc. Likewise, K. Vepa: he has a PhD of the
University of Waterloo in Engineering Sciences & applied mechanics,
studied there 1968 â 1972.
*Anybody* in the Indian orbit can turn historian overnight, at the
drop of a hat. Preferably, after retirement...
Yesterday a conference on this topic has begun in Delhi:
<http://www.thestatesman.org/page.arcview.php?clid=2&id=265809&usrsess=1
39258>
tiny URL: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>
Interestingly, even IER/Westerner-baiter Sandhya Jain (rabid
columnist in the chauvinistic paper, the Organizer), had to comment:
"NONE of the persons mentioned is a historian!"
Sure, it is a *political* event that she should actually welcome :^)
Quote from Vepa's web site <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/kosla/
vepa>: "The Indic Studies Foundation, based in the San Francisco Bay
Area, seeks to propagate a more accurate and rational approach to the
study and dissemination of the Indian Civilizational ethos in the world" and: "I have prepared educational materials and calendars for
dissemination to schools in India and the US."
Remember the CA schoolbook case? After failed attempts to rewrite history there,
this has been their new front...
Onward, Hindutva soldiers!
Cheers,
Michael<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasia...h/message/11929
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For your weekend amusement, though the repeated insistence on
"rewriting" of Indian history is really ... boring:
See: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>
"US-based engineer turned historian, Dr Vepa" says it all...
Like our long time friends mathematician Rajaram, bank employees Dr.
K. and Talageri, electric engineering Prof. S. Kak, medical
technician V. Agarwal (M.Sc.), astrologers like David Fawley
("Vamedeva") etc. etc. Likewise, K. Vepa: he has a PhD of the
University of Waterloo in Engineering Sciences & applied mechanics,
studied there 1968 â 1972.
*Anybody* in the Indian orbit can turn historian overnight, at the
drop of a hat. Preferably, after retirement...
Yesterday a conference on this topic has begun in Delhi:
<http://www.thestatesman.org/page.arcview.php?clid=2&id=265809&usrsess=1
39258>
tiny URL: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>
Interestingly, even IER/Westerner-baiter Sandhya Jain (rabid
columnist in the chauvinistic paper, the Organizer), had to comment:
"NONE of the persons mentioned is a historian!"
Sure, it is a *political* event that she should actually welcome :^)
Quote from Vepa's web site <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/kosla/
vepa>: "The Indic Studies Foundation, based in the San Francisco Bay
Area, seeks to propagate a more accurate and rational approach to the
study and dissemination of the Indian Civilizational ethos in the world" and: "I have prepared educational materials and calendars for
dissemination to schools in India and the US."
Remember the CA schoolbook case? After failed attempts to rewrite history there,
this has been their new front...
Onward, Hindutva soldiers!
Cheers,
Michael<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasia...h/message/11929