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Your argument is a red herring. You have cited exceptions in the Vedas for certain professions and certain rituals and you seek to claim that since those exceptions exist, the general rule (follow vegetarianism) must be false. That's a non-sequitur. The vast majority of Brahmins are...

Well, Brahmins who worked as priests and especially those who performed yajnas were by far in the minority and are today as well, so I would still say the vast majority of Brahmins practiced vegetarianism for religious reasons according to the scriptures. Of course, there are regional...

Oh, well I don't agree entirely with that. While the Vedas may not have proscribed meat eating, I believe there are verses which state something to the effect that vegetarianism is the "preferred" practice. From what I remember, this ties in with the emphasis on "karma" and the advice to...

I haven't gone through the entire thread, but wasn't a horse sacrifice performed in the Ramayana too after Ram returned back to Ayodhya? The ritual if I remember correctly was that a horse was let loose and wherever he roamed was taken to be part of the kingdom. If the horse was obstructed by a...

Says who? Can you mention any genetic studies done on Pakistani punjabis to show how they are different from Indian punjabis? Let me remind you, the 1947 partition was done based on religion, not on genetic or racial lines. There are no differences in physical characteristics between Indian...

^^Pakistanis are no different than North Indians. India and Pakistan were one country before 1947. The state of Punjab was divided in two during partition-Pakistani Punjab and Indian Punjab. Most Pakistanis are Punjabis and are culturally and ethnically identical to North Indians. .

Indeed. If we go farther back in time, then there is evidence to show that the earliest inhabitants of India were the Adivasis or tribals that now live in the forests and jungles. Both the Dravidians and Aryans came after them. But even the Adivasis were not always native to India. The most...

Aryans definitely did come to India from Central Asia, just as some of them went to Iran. Vir Sanghvi may choose to dismiss the tremendous linguistic similarities between Latin and Sanskrit, but facts don't change. Also, he has failed to mention the significant civilizational links shared...