10-28-2005, 09:17 AM
Ravi,
What's history but a fable agreed upon, right? We nod our heads and accept nonsense since it's either inconsequential or not relevant to our daily life and next thing we know - Aurangazeb is most benevelont ruler, Jaichand is hero, Jizziya was a tax relief and Vedas preached bovine diet.
The issue is that false myths are being propogated by people with an agenda and educated masses let it pass.
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Yes one can. All we have to do is question his academic honesty and integrity about his work. I'm surprised that someone familiar with the works of people like Pannikar, Jha, Thappar, Irfan Habib, Satish Chandra etc is NOT worked about it. These people are not some looneys ranting in a letter to editor but people with tremondous influence in terms of shaping/molding the minds of young kids with fake history.
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Mudy's pointed to some links put out by India Forum on the subject. Feel free to dissect it for critical analysis and debate it here. Feel free to even dissmeninate it in your yahoogroup if you feel fit.
But if you state for a fact that something is said in vedas, I'll humbly request you to point it out to me since I haven't found it till date - and I've searched. Till then if you can't stop Jha's opionion on this little issue, you can atleast stop dissmeninating his half baked theories.
What's history but a fable agreed upon, right? We nod our heads and accept nonsense since it's either inconsequential or not relevant to our daily life and next thing we know - Aurangazeb is most benevelont ruler, Jaichand is hero, Jizziya was a tax relief and Vedas preached bovine diet.
The issue is that false myths are being propogated by people with an agenda and educated masses let it pass.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->One cannot stop people like Jha writing nonsense<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes one can. All we have to do is question his academic honesty and integrity about his work. I'm surprised that someone familiar with the works of people like Pannikar, Jha, Thappar, Irfan Habib, Satish Chandra etc is NOT worked about it. These people are not some looneys ranting in a letter to editor but people with tremondous influence in terms of shaping/molding the minds of young kids with fake history.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Better concentrate on bringing out your own version, laying it open for critical analysis, debating it out, and then disseminating it.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mudy's pointed to some links put out by India Forum on the subject. Feel free to dissect it for critical analysis and debate it here. Feel free to even dissmeninate it in your yahoogroup if you feel fit.
But if you state for a fact that something is said in vedas, I'll humbly request you to point it out to me since I haven't found it till date - and I've searched. Till then if you can't stop Jha's opionion on this little issue, you can atleast stop dissmeninating his half baked theories.