The Big Scandal of Indology
Imagine this: While traveling through a foreign land, you find an announcement of a public lecture about your country at your hotel. Being free that afternoon and feeling nostalgic for home, you and your spouse More...
An Indian Classics Curriculum
Higher education around the world is facing a crisis. Students are caught between the ever increasing cost of tuition and the permanent loss of jobs due to automation and AI. Several things are being considered More...
Indian Astronomy and the Yavanajātaka Date Fabrication
Most students of history have probably not heard of the question of the dating of the Yavanajātaka even though it is a significant milestone in the history of Indian science, and it has lessons both for the More...
On the Chronological Framework for Indian Culture- 3
[contextly_sidebar id=”IRyLA2DQrmDxuaLXiqhAGbQeb5G7QYlM”] The Bharata War Let us review the three main Indian traditions regarding the time of the Bharata War. 1. The Puranic Evidence To examine this More...
On the Chronological Framework for Indian Culture- 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”np5S5dXuRFu5gN2XgzIYhSeqNilY7xqy”] Chronology of the Vedic literature With the collapse of the Aryan invasion and immigration theory and the questioning of the assumptions upon More...
On the Chronological Framework for Indian Culture- 1
Introduction It has been more than a decade that Indologists started voicing the need for a radical reexamination of the ideological premises on which early Indian historiography has been based. It was to satisfy More...
Kaṇāda, Great Physicist and Sage of Antiquity
The achievements of Classical Greece in diverse fields, especially literature (plays and history), mathematics, science, philosophy, and the arts have profoundly influenced world culture. Especially impressive is More...
A Very Brief History of Indian Science
The annual Indian Science Congress, which just concluded, had its usual share of controversies about history of Indian science and I have been asked to weigh in. It so turns out that I did precisely that in a brief More...
The Rāma Story and Sanskrit in Ancient Xinjiang
Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below the Tian Shin Mountains) was Indic in culture and it was a thriving part of More...
The Death of Proto-Indo-European
In the 19th century, linguists came up with the idea that nearly all modern European languages are descended from an ancestor language called Proto-Indo-European (PIE), which they proposed was spoken prior to about More...