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Prem Kumar

The Chinese also have S-300s + its reverse-engineered HQ variants

Prem Kumar

What would destroy AIT conclusively would be the presence of so called steppe DNA in samples a lot older than this, indicating the Indic origins of such DNA. Correct me if I am wrong please. But this appears to be a tautology. If I may suggest, its time to shift strategy. We must act as if OIT has ...

Prem Kumar

Karthik S makes a valid point. The recent Tuticorin riots, Koodankulam before that, Neduvasal...... I could go on about the Church funded agitations in TN. The Chennai-Salem expressway is the latest Industrialists need not go by WhatsApp forwards. But they will go by riots & political stability....

Prem Kumar

RoyG: not sure what you are going on about? Both the recent articles BURY AIT. The latest one from Economic Times has our fav Niraj Rai again - except he is arguing for indigenous Vedas with only "minimal contact" with Iranians. Don't know which way this guy swings on any given day! The on...

Prem Kumar

I wonder how CCMB got a hold of Rakhigari DNA? Was the excavation done by someone other than ASI (or) did ASI give permission to extract DNA?

I agree with JEM: if at all we release the DNA, it should be to someone like CCMB. Not to the Harvard Nazis & their Indian sepoys, who will abuse the data.

Prem Kumar

RoyG: we don't know a few things yet 1) Whether the chariot itself is dated to be between 2200 - 1800 BCE. There is a very good chance that it is, but we still need to carbon-date it 2) What animal pulled the chariot: likely horse but this may not be settled as easily 3) Was it a chariot or a cart: ...

Prem Kumar

Very exciting find! Coincides with chariot burials found in China that someone else tweeted about.

I am curious to know what time is "pre-iron-age" - in India, iron age was pushed back to 1800 BCE

Prem Kumar

There are 2 recent papers that have pretty much killed the Steppe-homeland theory . 1) The absence of Steppe DNA in Anatolia during the time IE was spoken there 2) The Maykop culture being ancestral to the Steppe, implying South to North DNA movement This has caused a lot of heartburn among the Step...

Prem Kumar

This obsession with Steppes is pathetic. In all probability, their contribution to the world's culture was limited. I propose that we call them the Bronze Age Arabs , who took Indian language/culture/religion to the West. Just like how the later day Arabs transmitted algebra. And how the even later ...

Prem Kumar

The intentional fraud that geneticists choose to believe and propagate is this Because Steppe people invaded Europe, they must have invaded India too As Koenraad Elst says, there is plenty of evidence for a Steppe invasion into Europe: abrupt archaeological changes, signs of violence etc. But there ...

Prem Kumar

I have a theory on how they will weasel out of these conflicting studies: 1) Anatolia got IE due to "exchanges" and "elite dominance". There was some interaction with Steppe_EMBA, but genetically undetectable 2) Anatolia IE is early 3) South Asia got its DNA via "invasion&qu...

Prem Kumar

I still suspect hanky-panky. The failure rate is way too high. Plus we lost a satellite due to launch problems. May seem like independent incidents, each having its own root cause. But having seen American perfidy before (ISRO Nambi incident, Homi Bhabha death etc), I wouldn't rule anything out. If ...

Prem Kumar

I don't like the fact that, in the close captioning, they replaced the word "Allah" with "God". The call records are filled with the word "Allah"

Prem Kumar

Here's an interesting tidbit: Niraj Rai, who has done a U-turn and become an AIT supporter, was granted a visiting scholarship at Harvard Medical School (Reich lab)!! Recall the incident where Witzel offered Talageri a scholarship at Harvard if the latter changed his views Now this guy Niraj Rai lea...

Prem Kumar

Check out the 1-sentence-summary of Vagheesh's paper One Sentence Summary: Genome wide ancient DNA from 357 individuals from Central and South Asia sheds new light on the spread of Indo-European languages and parallels between the genetic history of two sub-continents, Europe and South Asia. This is...

Prem Kumar

Shri RS Bisht's work is unbelievably thorough!! True tapasya!

Prem Kumar

Murugan: the link from the Facebook page is dead. When I Googled, I found the full report (you can confirm if its the same one) http://www.academia.edu/12012020/Excavations_at_Dholavira_1989-2005_RS_Bisht_2015_Full_text_including_scores_of_Indus_inscriptions_announced_for_the_first_time._Report_vali...

Prem Kumar

Murugan: what's the Dholavira excavation report that was unpublished for 9 years?

Prem Kumar

The first thing to dismantle a narrative is to question the terms that are used casually as if they are self-evident. I will give 2 examples of such recent skullduggery 1) Steppe DNA: can some geneticist define what the heck this is? It better be some marker that is so goddamn unique that, just by l...

Prem Kumar

There are 2 main approaches as I see it 1) Shiv's approach, which argues that genetics does not mean language. Sanskrit is likely several thousand years old. It or its predecessor was spread over large parts of Iran. And it likely could have spread to Europe and Steppes from there 2) We look into wh...

Prem Kumar

Agree with Shiv here. One minor setback and we get into a collective rhona-dhona mode!! We must keep plugging away and fighting the good fight. We have to build our civilizational narrative and brush aside anyone who gets in the way. OIT is not dead just because a Hartosh Bal or a Niraj Rai thinks s...

Prem Kumar

Caravan Mag and Hartosh are habitual liars. So take whatever they say with a pinch of salt. Let the paper come out But "if" what they say is true, then Niraj Rai has done an about-turn. He was a vocal opponent of AIT. But he seems to indicate that there was a Steppe influx post 2600 BCE. A...

Prem Kumar

Hi Rudradev: a request for you to read and comment on the quote below Let me ask a dumb question: Modern Indian population is being modeled as a cocktail of Steppe_MLBA, Iran_N, AASI, Onge etc. Presumably because: 1) Common mutations can be found 2) They fit a statistical curve 3) aDNA from Steppe, ...

Prem Kumar

In the loooong running tweet chain with Vagheesh, Shiv and others, I saw a comment of interest. It asked "How are all Indian groups a combo of Steppe, Iran etc DNA?". Basically, if India was already heavily populated, how do you explain a handful of Nomadic pastoralists to pass their genes...

Prem Kumar

Let me ask a dumb question: Modern Indian population is being modeled as a cocktail of Steppe_MLBA, Iran_N, AASI, Onge etc. Presumably because: 1) Common mutations can be found 2) They fit a statistical curve 3) aDNA from Steppe, Iran are available, thereby positioning them as a possible source Poin...

Prem Kumar

If I may nitpick, even the "back migrations" may not be back migrations at all. Because there is no aDNA from India & its available only from Europe and Steppes, they call a certain DNA as Steppe DNA. So, if they find it in modern day Indians, they say "Indians have Steppe DNA&quo...

Prem Kumar

The SAAB guys were pretty friendly (which was rare among foreign vendors in DefExpo). They let us carry and aim with a Carl Gustaf. We were there when they opened and they told me that they "might" let us play with a simulator of an RBS-70 (laser beam riding man portable SAM). But by the t...

Prem Kumar

Is Vem Technologies participating in this event? Any updates if it is? Yes. I went to their stall. They had a few things displayed 1) A laser guided bomb - guidance kit, tail fins etc. 1000 lbs 2) A man portable ATGM. I believe he said it was 15 or 17 Kgs. Don't remember exactly 3) They had a gener...

Prem Kumar

Karan M: sharing a nugget or two I picked up: 1) Was talking to a DRDO gentleman and he explained about flares. He showed me comparative graphs of indigenous flares vs the imported ones from the UK. Ours significantly outperforms the imported one. He explained how modern IIR guided missiles work. He...

Prem Kumar

It was great to meet Kakarat and Bob V today at the DefExpo18! Had a lovely time visiting various stalls. The Sarang helicopter display was awesome. The DRDO folks were very helpful with information. I felt that 1 day wasn't enough, especially considering that you had to wait 1.5 hrs to get good sea...

Prem Kumar

Thanks a lot Kakarat! I've sent you email

Are there age restrictions for DefExpo18?

Prem Kumar

Thanks SSridhar: is there any registration requirement prior to going there? Any fees?

Prem Kumar

Hi Bob V & others - some questions. Would greatly appreciate any answers: We are planning to go to DefExpo tomorrow (14th) and Island Grounds (15th) For DefExpo18 (Thiruvidandhai): it says that the gates open at 8 and the event begins at 9 AM. a) What time does it make sense to be there - 8 AM o...

Prem Kumar

Thanks tsarkar!

I thought you mentioned that she also had some positive things to say about Arjun and Tejas induction?

Prem Kumar

Kakarat wrote:I think many of us are visiting the ships on 13th so why not have a BR meet at the ship itself?

Am game. Will try to make it.

Is there an age limit? Also, what's the location to see the ships?

Prem Kumar

Good points, Anshuman. I'd forgotten that they'd talked about unpublished data. But I heard that Rakhigarhi paper was several months away, at least. Its interesting to note that K. Thangaraj (who'd be involved in any Rakhigarhi paper) is also a co-author of the Vagheesh paper, though he is not a lea...

Prem Kumar

What to make of this comment on biorxiv? The idea is that the Steppe component of Indian samples can be attributed to the Iranian Neolithic. http://disq.us/p/1rj4yuo I had posted the same comment on this forum as well. I found it very incisive. It looks like the data doesn't support the paper's con...

Prem Kumar

Looks like they don't have good data on Rakhigarhi samples. I don't know if this means that they are trying (or) they have tried and given up. This is very unfortunate. The earlier set of Rakhigarhi DNA could not be analyzed due to contamination. There was hope by the researchers that the new set wo...

Prem Kumar

Rudradev: I looked at the Lazaridis paper of 2016 that you pointed out. A couple of questions arose: 1) If they actually have Steppe_EMBA aDNA, why do they need to "model it"? Is it so that they can then take that model and apply it elsewhere? 2) Aren't the clusters used to "model&quo...

Prem Kumar

Arun: that's what I am thinking too. But just because a particular mutation was found in the aDNA sample from the Steppes, doesn't mean its "Steppe DNA". This mutation could have very well evolved elsewhere and traveled to the Steppes. Who's to say that the ancestor the Steppe DNA will not...

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