Aryan Debate: Do the recent genetic studies validate Aryan invasion theory?
Last September, with the release of the genetic paper titled ‘An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers’ by Shinde et al, which is about study conducted on ancient More...
The Metrology behind Harappan Town-Planning – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”0ovqocYcEwdl99JPiYPqOPvZZxg6xXLK”] Dimensions in Harappan Settlements Ratios apart, we come across many dimensions of structures in Harappan settlements that can be expressed as More...
The Metrology behind Harappan Town-Planning – I
Abstract The existence and use of Harappan linear units have remained a riddle. Harappan town planning, in particular, has not so far been known to have used precise units, although it displays elaborate geometry. More...
History, Textbooks and Distortion
Vedic era and Vedic society The most ancient literary evidence in Indian history is the Veda. The ancient archaeological sites are that of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Unanimously all history textbooks tell that both More...
Book Review: Harappa Script & Language by S. Kalyanaraman (2016)
Harappa Script & Language: Data mining of Corpora, tantra yukti & knowledge discovery of a civilization by S. Kalyanaraman (2016). The book can be purchased from Amazon. Introduction In a speech organized More...
Book Review:- India: A Sacred Geography—A Disturbing New Front
Diana L. Eck “is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University and is Master of Lowell House and Director of the Pluralism Project.” She has written an atlas of sorts of More...
Seminar on Intellectual Traditions of Ancient India: Day 3
Day 3 of the Seminar on Intellectual Traditions of Ancient India started with a talk on “Cryptographic Poetry in Sanskrit” by Professor K.S.Kannan. One elementary technique that has been put into a high More...
Ancient India: age of freedom and synthesis
This is the second part of the IndiaFacts’ series on “Distortions in Indian History,” excerpted from Dr. N.S. Rajaram’s book, “Nationalism and Distortions in Indian History. Read the first part here. History More...