tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post996512486192985590..comments2024-03-19T01:34:53.614+05:30Comments on Rapid Uplift: My Article In Pragati On Vedic Sarasvati and River GhaggarSuvrat Kherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172632784780810noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-46715039034006034592009-08-17T14:25:00.510+05:302009-08-17T14:25:00.510+05:30Hi.. Thanks for this informative article. I really...Hi.. Thanks for this informative article. I really liked it. I also came across this similar site with nice articles and videos on vedic prinicples - http://www.vichaar.tv/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-64888773320324193372009-06-19T23:31:18.337+05:302009-06-19T23:31:18.337+05:30Azygos-- thanks for adding that detail. sure and t...Azygos-- thanks for adding that detail. sure and that too supports a scenario of migration from central Asia to India.Suvrat Kherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172632784780810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-19767741577590759962009-06-19T21:14:29.236+05:302009-06-19T21:14:29.236+05:30There is an internal stratification within the Rik...There is an internal stratification within the Riks. The oldest Riks obviously dont contain any Dravidian loan words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-54607798980639943582009-06-13T18:13:54.162+05:302009-06-13T18:13:54.162+05:30Thanks for the nice linkabout the Science article ...Thanks for the nice linkabout the Science article about leprosy in the 4000 years old skeleton.Sunil Deepakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781674474022699458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-49601392473397746332009-06-12T17:41:12.433+05:302009-06-12T17:41:12.433+05:30Deepak- thanks. i think Megarajan makes a good poi...Deepak- thanks. i think Megarajan makes a good point. We forget Dravidian speaking residents and their influence on Arya -speakers. Sanskrit has lots of loan words from Dravidian. The "Hindu" culture that evolved here was not the exclusive creation of Arya-speakers but a polyglot culture influenced by a wide ranging earlier residents.<br /> <br />That is actually one piece of evidence pointing towards the polarity of migration. If Arya-speakers had migrated <i>to Asia from India</i> as many claim the supposed derivative languages in central Asia should have contained Dravidian loan words too. You don't see that for example in old Indo-Iranian. <br /><br />Regarding leprosy did you read the news of a skeleton uncovered in northwest India which is about 4000 years old. <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202805.htm" rel="nofollow">See here.</a> so far that is the oldest physical evidence of leprosy and it would be interesting to see what genetics has to say about its relationship to other strains provided they can recover some useable DNA.Suvrat Kherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172632784780810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-27286756049944088382009-06-12T10:15:05.681+05:302009-06-12T10:15:05.681+05:30why did only India develop the kind of culture it ...why did only India develop the kind of culture it did and not those who went towards central Asia?<br /><br />People who talk about Indian history always forget about Tamil History and hence are left with a piece missing to the jigsaw puzzle that is india.<br /><br />From the wikipedia entry for Yin and yang "Yin and yang are complementary opposites within a greater whole. "<br /><br />India in itself comprises a Yin and yang aspect to it, which are the Aryan and Dravidian thoughts and this is what is responsible for what India is today and What Central Asia is not where only the aryans were present.Megarajanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003862189851034447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-17209930522227299622009-06-12T08:35:32.795+05:302009-06-12T08:35:32.795+05:30Really nice this issue of Pragati, very thought pr...Really nice this issue of Pragati, very thought provoking and full of great articles. Congrats.<br /><br />It made me reflect in two different directions.<br /><br />The first about links between geography and culture. Assuming that there was an Aryan migration from India towards central Asia, why did only India develop the kind of culture it did and not those who went towards central Asia?<br /><br />The second more related to my field of work - leprosy. It is an ancient disease, mentioned in ancient Indian and Chinese texts. People always said that the disease originated in India. Stewart Cole and his team has done a DNA epidemiology of different strains, coming with theories of migration waves that must have brought the disease to other parts of the world. I wonder how would historians look at that and compare those with other DNA studies?Sunil Deepakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781674474022699458noreply@blogger.com