Asko Parpola

Yesterday's The Hindu had an interesting interview with Asko Parpola, who is an eminent Indologist. In this article, he explains why he thinks that ‘I do not believe in a full decipherment’ of the Indus script. Of something that has been of debate very recently after a certain political party came into power, he has this to say - "I have always found it most unfortunate that the past is politicised and used for other than scholarly purposes. As far as the Aryan-Dravidian dichotomy is concerned, it must be remembered that ‘Aryan’ and ‘Dravidian’ are linguistic and not racial terms". This is actually a very interesting line to take. Instead of lambasting the people who used the Aryan Invasion fact/theory for political mileage, he answers - "There is no pure race, and Aryan and Dravidian speakers have been in contact with each other in South Asia from the start of their encounter. Ever since the Aryan speakers came to India from Central Asia, this militarily powerful minority group would have mixed with the local population. Centuries of gradually increasing bilingualism eventually led to a large-scale language shift, making almost the whole population of North India Indo-Aryan speakers. Linguistic and religious fanatics inflame a wrong sort of nationalism, which has led to great ills both in South Asia and elsewhere. Ancient traditions of language must not be used to divide people."

Beautiful explanation. Accept facts for facts. Nothing more.

For the complete article, read here.

The Aryan Invasion "Theory"

Whoever termed the above as a theory must be comprehensively fed to the hungriest of hyeanas!!! WTF?? When did this ever become a theory?? After the BJP first came to power?? To completely read on this theory, click here for an article on Wikipedia!! Even that is all on "allegedly" terms.....cause as you know, anyone can edit the page! So all you supremacist bastards, leave the page alone!!.

And moreover, on the page for Tamilnadu, under the heading Racial Concepts (and Wikipedia has accepted it), there is this line that speaks that "However, lighter Aryan-skin is considered more beautiful than darker-Dravidian skin."...WTF again!!??? Read on this line here.

Hitler would have been proud...turn in your frigging grave!!