According to scientists, after the Ice Age, we find rise of human civilisation around the world, especially in river valleys. We find settlements in South Asia as confirmed by cave paintings and various Stone Age artefacts. The Harappan city civilisation thrived around the rivers Indus and Saraswati in the North West for a thousand years from 5, years ago to 4, years ago, with trade links to Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Climate changes, and the drying of Saraswati, led to the collapse of this civilisation. The only image recognisable is one that suggests Shiva in meditation. While Harappan cities collapsed, the ideas found in the Harappan civilisation did not die out and probably served as one of the many tributaries to the river we called Indic culture. And so plants such as pipal, symbols such as swastika and mathematical proportions such as one and one quarter which have been traced in Harappan cities are still very much part of contemporary Indian faith systems.
As the Harappan civilisation cities without language waned, the Vedic civilisation language without cities waxed, marked by hymns in a language similar to the language of a nomadic people who migrated out 5, years ago from Eurasia towards Europe in the West and India via Iran in the East.
It was never an invasion as British Orientalists imagined. Photo: Reuters. According to language experts, while proto-Sanskrit may have come from Eurasia, the language we call Sanskrit today emerged in the region where Harappan cities once thrived. Did the two people mingle, exchange ideas? Did the Veda-chanting people inhabit the dying Harappan cities? Evidence is weak.
The people speaking Vedic Sanskrit eventually spread further east towards the Ganga where they established a thriving civilisation 3, years ago. The hymns refer to an eastward migration. Reference to iron is found in later hymns. Archaeologists have found painted greyware pottery in the Gangetic plains that can be dated to this period.
So we are fairly confident that Vedic civilisation thrived in the Gangetic plains 3, years ago. The epics refer to events in the Gangetic plains, so can we say these events happened around 3, years ago? How much truth is there in the stories that claim that a region in Kurukshetra still has a high level of radioactivity?
India's first physical National Yogasana Sports championships kicked-off here on Thursday. It began with a vibrant and enthralling opening ceremony in the presence of young athletes aiming high for 50 medals in a uniquely designed competition. The structure of the championship for Yogasana as a sport has been uniquely curated. It is truly an experience to be in the presence of such talented athletes, coaches, and experts. We hope to take Yogasana sport on to the global stage," he added.
Secretary General of NYSF, Jaideep Arya, said health and fitness should be of utmost priority and there is no better discipline than yoga. At NYSF, we have committed our efforts towards promoting Yogasana and maintaining high standards in the competitive sport," he said.
Vineel Krishna, said: "We value sports and make an honest effort towards promoting fitness. Yogasana is one of the finest mediums of fitness, wellness and I am delighted that a world-class platform has been collated to promote it among the youth of India and the globe. This day marks the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who was the first education minister of independent India.
He served the country from to , and was a significant part of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. It must be noted that India has been observing National Education Day since Interestingly, on this day, various educational institutions like schools and colleges host different kinds of programs and functions.
On this day, students and teachers come together to talk about importance of education in all spheres of life. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad strongly advocated for women's education. In fact, in the Central Assembly in , he said that national education can not be appropriate if it does not give consideration for the advancement of one-half of the society, i.
He also stressed for the modern education system, and stressed on the use of English language for educational advantages. But, he was of the view that primary education should be imparted in the mother-tongue. In the year , the Ministry of Education which was then the Ministry of Human Resource Development announced to commemorate the birthday of this great Indian by recalling his contribution to the cause of education in India.
Since then, his birthday is celebrated as National Education Day. With net neutrality out of the way, your internet service provider ISP throttles internet speeds to reduce the burden on the bandwidth. Have you ever felt that your internet connection speed drastically slows down when you are streaming or downloading torrents? If you are using Netflix and suddenly you experience extensive buffering or drop in video quality, you blame Netflix for bad video streaming. Unfortunately, Netflix is not to blame as your ISP might be the cause.
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Fierce circles of light were seen every day around both the Sun and the Moon. These circles showed three hues…. There seems to be an eerie reference to the atomic bomb explosion and radioactivity. But there is nothing remotely like this story in any archaeological publications. Archaeological information about the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and other Indus Valley sites is widely available online and in print, and there is simply no such thing as radioactive skeletons or skeletons in large numbers or holding hands or sprawled in any way that the archaeologists saw reason to print.
Furthermore, the vast majority of radioactive isotopes produced in a nuclear blast have extremely short half-lives measured in seconds, hours, or days, and are reduced to safe levels very quickly. Those that pose the greatest threat to human health are Cesium and Strontium, which have half-lives of 30 and 28 years, and so even these would have been reduced to well below the natural background levels thousands of years ago. Note that despite the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no harmful radiation persists today in either city.
Put together all the radiation data, and we know for a fact, with no doubt, that any claims of modern radiation in India proving a prehistoric nuclear war are false. So we have good reason to regard the entire story with great skepticism. So how about this giant unexplained crater near Bombay? Lonar Crater — which is some kilometers southeast of Jodhpur, even farther away — is indeed a real crater. Rim to rim it measures about 1. It is blasted out of thick layers of volcanic basalt, deposited over the plateau 66 million years ago.
If the crater was indeed formed by a nuclear blast , years ago, dating techniques should make this easy to determine.
For a long time, the accepted age of Lonar Crater was 52, years; far too old to have been part of this alleged nuclear war. This had been determined by thermoluminescence dating, which tells us when the sample was last molten.
But two newer measurements, using argon-argon radiometric dating instead, found older dates of , years and , years, with non-overlapping margins of error. Reference Dunning, B. Skeptoid Media, 18 Oct The comparative study of surrounding sites indicates that the date of the structures of Dwarka may be between the Historical period and the late medieval period.
The paper reviews the earlier hypothesis about the identification and dating of these structures in light of new evidences from the recent underwater explorations. According to ancient Sanskrit literature, Lord Krishna founded the holy city of Dwarka, which subsequently got submerged undersea. Marine archaeological explorations off Dwarka have brought to light a large number of stone structures, which are semicircular, rectangular and square in shape in water depth ranging from the intertidal zone to 6 m.
They are randomly scattered over a vast area. Besides these structures, a large number of varieties of stone anchors have been noticed along with the structures as well as beyond 6 m water depth.
With all due respect to the epic, there are multiple instances of fictional stories using real settings, places, and people. These are easy examples to understand. The Cable Guy In this film starring Jim Carrey as a disturbed cable guy who tries to make friends there is a scene that predicted the future with creepy accuracy.
He even says you will play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam, predicting online gaming and Google TV at the same time.
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This shows that these sites were inhabited around this time, and the nature of the remains suggests that the people who lived here shared a pastoral and agricultural living. There is another sort of evidence from Hastinapura: The Matsya and Vayu Puranas state that during the reign of king Nichakshu fifth king in the Puranas. There is a strong local tradition that the Purana Qila in New Delhi marks the place where Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas, once stood.
A 14th century stone inscription found in Naraina village in west Delhi also mentions Indraprastha. In fact, till the end of the 19th century, there was a village called Indarpat inside the fort walls. Excavations carried out at the Purana Qila between and revealed several archaeological levels ranging from the 4th century BCE to the 19th century CE.
The discovery of a few stray pieces of PGW indicated the possibility that an older settlement was located somewhere nearby. However, there is no way of knowing for sure whether this settlement had any connection with the Mahabharata.
The single most challenge that anyone who wants to prove that Mahabharata and the war mentioned as Kurukshetra War happened, will be to establish when did it actually happen?
A simple run through the Timeline of Indian History will show why it is so difficult to place the Kurukshetra war and events in Mahabharata on this timeline. Vedic Period which is established to predated Ramayana and Mahabharata As per the epics was overlapping with the late Indus Valley Civilization and Aryan migration to India. Aryans were the people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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