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Just the cost of printing the new currency notes is ~15k crores. 30K crore is not a large sum - less than $5 billion . The total face value of currency taken out of circulation was over $200 billion, with about half of that replaced by new notes . Has to be more than that. As per this Indian Expres...

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Absolutely brilliant game by Anand yesterday at the Sinquefield Cup 2017, IMO must rank among his top 20 brilliant games of all time. Anand's game have been on decline since his losses to Carlsen in the World Championship games and lately he hasn't won much in terms of top tournaments, the age is fi...

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Subsidise rail losses, PMO tells Finance Ministry The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has directed the Ministry of Finance to fund the losses incurred by the railways in operating non-profitable trains on strategic lines and backward areas. The directive ends a tussle that began after the merger of t...

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Help - everyone quotes stuff like this: "Yajnavalkya for beef who said: “I for one eat it, provided it is tender (amsala)", but I've never seen a citation for this, from where exactly it comes. Anyone? Thanks in advance! Not trying to push or create a controversy here, just asking help wi...

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I support OIT because it makes more objective sense to me. I am surprised you would say that when the existing level of knowledge, information, and evidence are heavily stacked in favor of AIT/AMT. Now on some future date the OIT proponents can come up with evidence/proof then the opinion can chang...

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I would completely agree with you, certainly we can't create man made rainforest. But by planting large number of trees we can certainly create forests or at least increase the area under tree cover.

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Well the reverse is certainly true, but there are theories explaining why forests and rainforest attract rain. It has something to do with the excess moisture shed by trees which condenses with the existing moisture in the atmosphere to form clouds and eventually rain etc.

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Will massive planting of trees help ward off this potentially catastrophic event for us South Asians? In any case trees should be planted regardless, as it can provide respite from the scorching heat, attract rainfall, help in attaining carbon neutrality, and just plain look good.

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Only problem is so far the older R1a are from Central Asia, So this book will make sense only if R1a older than Central Asian R1a are found in Indian subcontinent. "Older R1a"? Do you have any idea what R1a even is? Do you think it is like bhaji in the subzi mandi, with "older" ...

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Here comes the AIT/AMT, an article by Rajesh Kochhar in IE, nothing new here, no new reference is given. The Aryan chromosome My best answer to the above article is this book. I know it sounds crazy but no crazier than the article above. For those, who have not read this book read it for the pure f...

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Here comes the AIT/AMT, an article by Rajesh Kochhar in IE, nothing new here, no new reference is given.

The Aryan chromosome

Where did the Aryans come to India from? When did they migrate? Genetics is now beginning to affirm archaeological and literary evidence.

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Also from the abstract of the paper above: The persistence of such a river during the Harappan Bronze Age and the Iron Age Vedic period is strongly debated. Is this accepted chronology on the forum? If so then the Vedic period can't be older that say 1800 BC or so as per this paper, right? Did the M...

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Ram lived in Treta yug. We are living in Kaliyug now. In between there was Dwapar yug which was 864,000 years long. Assuming that we are x years into Kaliyug and Ram breathed his last y years before the end of Treta, that should make Ramayana at least (y + 864,000 + x) years old. I am surprised why ...

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Hari Seldon wrote:Al Capone too was finally arrested on tax evasion charges. He never saw sunlight as a free man ever again.

Inshalalalala, may the same fate befall these Turdy creeps.

Al Capone part is incorrect. He was freed after spending 8 years in jail and died 8 years later after his release.

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No one that I know of has suggested going to a library - so here you are making several rhetorical constructs 1. All online learning has not been dissed That's a half-lie. Wikipedia learning has been dissed 2. "I don't see how spending hours and hours in library going through hard copies provi...

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So Dipanker's strawman statement that "you think spending hours in libraries is better learning than spending the same hours online" is pure nonsense, and reveals a mindset which has no clue what "learning" really is. This seems to be the typical Indian school-kid mentality, whe...

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Knowledge is knowledge whether available online electronically or as hard copy in printed form. Today people can earn a degree online in hosts of subjects at all levels, including PHD's in some. Heck, I took a whole bunch of online courses from many of the top universities just to experience the qua...

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^The entire education system needs a total overhaul in curriculum, methodology, and quality of teaching. Good news is that so much resource is now freely available in electronic form that lack of quality teaching can be largely overcome by using such resources. Make them widely available and incorpo...

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the fundamental paradigm of scientific training is to not consider anything true without corroborative evidence. A book is not evidence. A book is a statement of claim. Yet, we 'evil, western educated people' who overturn centuries of mythological propaganda masquerading as facts inside religion, m...

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Why is GOI in mostly silent mode? China is issuing daily dose of psyops/threats which the MSM newspapers are faithfully reproducing. At least some of these need to be countered.

Sikkim stand-off could escalate into full-scale conflict, warns China

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A Turkmenistan archeological site ( BMAC ??) dating > 2000 BC, this is from the 10 part BBC documentary on India iirc from 2007 (?). Overall this was a good series sans the controversial AIT/AMT part. This site is supposed to be a Indo-European site on the way to their southward migration. B-8JAdDbN...

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Dr Bibek Debroy dates Mahabharata war to 1200 BC.

Understanding Mahabharat with Dr Bibek Debroy

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JE Menon wrote: Even now the buggers are wandering about on yaks in yurts and crushing a form of yogurt to survive, as UlanBatori will proudly testify;

Aren't these Ulan Batorians located roughly >2000 miles east of Ukrainian/Russian steppe where the TFTA Yamnayans lived? AFAICT not related.

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yeah but its not necessarily true. I will give you an example : Han Chinese language. 2300 years ago, there were nearly a dozen related languages to 'Han', all in the central China region. For comparison's sake, think of if as Hindi was 'Han Chinese' and Han Chinese's relatives were like Punjabi, B...

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I think they rely more on the R1b carrying Yamnaya people into Europe for bringing in the Indo-European into Europe, than R1a bringing it to India. Did you read this article in Nature magazine published in 2015: Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe An...

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I don't know it will. the linguists have a religious affiliation with Amt. Which is why they cooked up 'Indo European language link' with R1a DNA. I will point out, no steppe culture before the turkish Khaganate (roughly 400s AD) left behind a single written evidence. None, nada, zip. So how do you...

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An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Just Broke Away From Antarctica A chunk of floating ice that weighs more than a trillion metric tons broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula, producing one of the largest icebergs ever recorded and providing a glimpse of how the Antarctic ice sheet might ultimately s...

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shiv, drop by Rahul D's mansion and ask him where his ancestors got the name

RD is a Maharastrian from Indore, MP, living in Bangalore, Kerala. Most likely his last name D does not signify anything, it is just an adopted one.

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shiv wrote:
Rig Veda's mention of the number horse ribs coincided with the number of ribs Arabian horses have.

Volume/Verse ref. number ?

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Where did Arabian horse come from? The Arabian or Arab horse (Arabic: الحصان العربي‎‎ [ ħisˤaːn ʕarabiː], DMG ḥiṣān ʿarabī) is a breed of horse that originated on the Arabian Peninsula. With a distinctive head shape and high tail carriage, the Arabian is one of the most easily recognizable horse br...

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If Pandyas and Cholas find a mention in Mahabharata that makes them contemporary to Mahabharata, doesn't it? Possibly. Or it is a later insertion. But whichever it is, the point is that, assuming the translation is accurate, that the understanding **at that point of time** when the insertion occurr...

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If Pandyas and Cholas find a mention in Mahabharata that makes them contemporary to Mahabharata, doesn't it?

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Wikipedia has some info, origin of the word apparently is from Prakrit phase, meaning is South India. Did not refer to ethnicity or language. Historically the word "drāviḍa" is used to denote the geographical region of South India,[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_people

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See, that's the thing. The "pure" Tamil word for water is "neer." "Jalam" is widely acknowledged to have come from up North - at least, that's the narrative. Likewise, for "sun," the "pure Tamil" word would be "kadhiravan" (literally, &quo...

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Cameroonians Speak Tamil? Another example of OIT?? I have no idea, I don't speak/understand tamil. I thought one word was in Punjabi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWyAYGlFZjk&t=8s

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Don't we just love our morning cup of Soma! Soma most likely is amanita muscaria. Display of such fertile imagination can only be attributed to a dose of choicest mushroom! On the brighter side the story of Arundhati walking in front of Ashwasthama Naro va Kunjaro...oops excuse my Soma, I mean Vashi...

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Simulation of coastline in 8,600 BC shows Sri Lanka was connected to mainland by a chunk of land several 100 KM wide.

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Interesting documentary, probably the right caption is "Flooded Kingdoms of The Ice Age"

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Wikipedia says as per Temple's record Adam's Bridge was completely above water until 15th century and one could simply walk across. It went under water only in 1480. It was reportedly passable on foot up to the 15th century until storms deepened the channel: temple records seem to say that Adam's Br...

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Even now the Adam's bridge connecting Talai Mannar and Dhanushkodi is only 1 to 10 meter under water. If the water level back then was 80m lower than today then one could have easily built may be a 30 lane highway to SriLanka! A bathymetry contour map of the area should make that obvious.

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