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The last nationalists of India have finally succumbed. One of the important Nationalist Congress Party leaders, the national face of the party from North East India has met the Indian National Congress President and apologized for the displeasure caused to her in 1999 on the issue of her foreign origin. (http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200906051481.htm) The Nationalist Congress party was formed in 1999, by a few prominent leaders of the Indian National Congress, on the issue of the foreign origin of the party president. In a moving letter, they requested her to honour India’s national pride and renounce the claim on the office of the Prime Minister, should the party come to power. Let me quote a passage from the letter(http://www.ncp.org.in/sonia1.htm) itself, “Madam President, India is a country with a history and tradition going back for 1000's of years. It is a confident culture and a proud nation. Above all it is a country which is self sufficient in every sens...

लोकसभा निवडणुकीत भारतीय राष्ट्रवादी शक्तींचा अभूतपूर्व पराभव झाला. धक्का फार मोठा आहे. धक्का फक्त या पराभवाचा नाही. मूळ विश्वास, आस्था आणि श्रद्धांचा आहे. आम्ही ज्या गोष्टींवर मनापासून श्रद्धा ठेवतो, ज्या काही गोष्टी आमच्या जीवनातील मूलभूत सत्ये आहेत, मातृभूमिचे एक राष्ट्र हे स्वरुप आम्ही मनी बाळगतो, ते सर्व खरोखरीच अस्तित्वात आहे का? त्याला वास्तवामध्ये काही आधार आहे का? का ते सर्व फक्त आमच्या स्वप्नसृष्टितच आहे, आमच्या पुरतेच सत्य आहे ? Do our beliefs have any relevance? मुळापासून विचार करावा लागेल. RSS आणि संघ परिवार हे काही सर्वगुणसम्पन्न मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तमांचे समूह नाहीत. कलियुगात कोणीच तसे नाही. पण आमच्या बहुदा कल्पनाविश्वातच असलेल्या राष्ट्रीय सत्वाचे - वास्तवात असणा-या शक्तिंमध्ये - सर्वात जवळचे असे वारसदार आणि संरक्षक नक्कीच आहेत. They are the closest approximation of the national essence of India of our time. म्हणुन त्यांच्या पराभवाने मन विषण्ण होते. एक तर हे आहे किंवा आम्ही मानतो ते राष्ट्रीय सत्व नाहीच. कधीच नव्हते. किंवा पूर्वी कधीकाळी असेलही पण आता ते नाही आणि ...

The debate on the Aryan Invasion /Migration theory has been a historic one. The idea was first propounded by Max Muller, a german philologist who studied the vedas and found similarities between Sanskrit and european languages like greek and latin. The basic premise of the theory was that Indians being a primitive people and racially inferior to the Europeans could not be the authors of civilization in India and civilization in India had to be introduced from outside. Before Max Muller, when western academia did not know of ancient India, the mainstream thought was that civilization was introduced to India by Alexander of Macedonia. The introduction of Indic Studies and ancient texts like the vedas in europe prompted the Aryan Invasion hypothesis. It basically stated that the dark skinned Indians before the arrival of the master european race of the Aryans were a primitive people who were introduced of civilization by the Aryans. This theory was the critical moral plat...

"In the happiness of his subjects lies the king's happiness, in their welfare his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which pleases him but treat as beneficial to him whatever pleases his subjects" – Arthashastra by Kautilya, circa 300 BC. India, as we know, is a land of hoary antiquity, the cradle of civilization and its people are the inheritors of a glorious unbroken cultural tradition whose evolution spans a time interval of over seven millennia. India is endowed with unparalleled diversity and amount of natural wealth and its people have been the pioneers of significant advances the human race has made along with other great and ancient civilizations. Today’s India appears as an epitome of extreme dichotomy. We are viewed by the world as a third world country, still recovering from a colonial hangover, and struggling to counter the poisonous tides of terrorism, poverty, unemployment and numerous such evils. At the same time we are one of the few nations...

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