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Messrs, thank you for the rejoinder. I believe your comment has already been responded to. In other words, what you wrote today, has already been responded to years ago. Kindly read the thread.

North Indians are fair skinned. South Indians are dark skinned. Those in between are various shades in between. I don't say this to mock or insult anybody anybody. This is just a hard fact. I am also dark skinned. I am likely to believe my eyes over anything else. Also, I am likely to believe...

The term mtDNA refers to Mitochondrial DNA, not Matrilinear DNA. Mitochondria is the power-house of the cell. It is true, however, that mtDNA is passed down from the mother's side only. It is passed down from mother to both son and daughter. Edited to add: I thought about it a bit. While what...

Well, it was not exactly ruins. What I saw was that the foundation had indications of belonging to one architecture and the rest of the building was a different architecture. So, it is likely that the old structure was demolished and a new one built in its place.

Yes, Vedas predate the Mahabharatas. What I am saying is, the concept of abduction is present in the Mahabharata, but it existed even earlier, as in, before Mahabharata.

I have seen at least two mosques built over ruins of temples in UP.

Intentionally. Saw one blog (not in this thread). Here's another one - Taj Mahal was originally called Tejo Mahalaya. :) Yup. Well, one of the links above claims there were Hindu gods in Egyptian pyramids. You might want to check it out. :)

Apparently, there are many who are (not) in their right mind. I am waiting for a repeat of the claim that Kaaba is actually the Arabic name for Shiva. :)

Some interesting thoughts. It is clear that Egyptologists disagree on a lot of things. What appears to be the case is that the people in Egypt were heterogeneous. Now, who were the real Egyptians and who were the immigrant populations, is not absolutely clear. Here is a reproduction of the...

Are the authors, by any chance, devotees of Lord Shiva?

Kansi Ram is light skinned, but is a Dalit. Modi is also light skinned. On the other hand, Mamata Banerjee is very dark. Rajnath Singh is also very dark. Skin tone does not always indicate caste. There are Bhumihars who have been at different points classified as both Shudras and Brahmins.

No, I did not edit Wikipedia. _______________________________________

The whole thing is false. There were four, not three. Those were Varnas, not estates. The priests and warriors were not the first. The priests were the first and the warriors were the second. Varna system has nothing to do with Aryan or Dravidian. A person from either Aryan or Dravidian...

Renaissance during the Golden Era, i.e. the Gupta Period?

What you are saying is true, that it is a derivative of Vedic language. I suppose you need to ask this question to whoever is curious as to why use the term "Sanskrit" at all? We have discussed this in DFI years ago. It is a pain to look for those old threads, but I believe they are out there...

I don't think I know more than him, but our perspectives might differ. He does accept that the word "arya" has conflicting explanations. Perhaps he is as bewildered as many of us are. The general understanding is that the word "arya" is to be understood in context. There are other linguists...

Linguists are not focused on one word. Linguists are focused on many words. You might find this link interesting: https://borissoff.wordpress.com/

Aum is not the core of Aryan culture and life. Aum is the core of Indo-Aryan culture and life.

There is a basis, and the horse is dead, so I see no point flogging it. I will end this with the argument that let each individual believe what he wants to.

Absense of aum proves what exactly? There is no hard and fast rule that a word that exists in a child language has to exist in the parent language. If the child and parent languages have everything in common, they won't be child or parent languages. They would be the same language. Aum is...