Aryan Invasion and Indo-Aryan culture : My Views

it depends on the fact that how u look at it, either u looking at it with the prejudice of Indian culture being superior to all (also to state that Britishers were racially motivated) OR with another view that history is not absolute it changes with new findings n time.

Rigveda mentions a lot about a drink called SOM drank by all, n especially by INDRA >> som is not an Indian plant, its found in central asia, and now som is not a part of Hinduism. again because its not found in India. If u try to search hard enough then u can find som in old markets of Peshawar by the name of MAHOO (Peshawar is the region around which Aryans settled first)

secondly Rigveda mentions about horses, which are not native for India..they came from central Asia. Russian Archeologist VICTOR SARIANADI has found remains of a lost civilization in deserts of Turkmenistan (which at that time was a fertile oasis) where there are remains proving a civilization which used to make som (evidences) do rituals with fire (ALMOST EVERY HINDU RITUAL INVOLVES FIRE) n remains of horses n wagons ( RATH =wagons not chariots). then there was a big climate change n river flowing through that area changed its course so they were forced to migrate.This civilization was around 4000 BC, that's the same time around which saraswati river was drying due climate change.

these so called Aryans migrated from central Asia through Turkmenistan n hindukush range ..few went towards Iran others came towards India. they reached by the time sarasvati was almost gone..but here is the point i want to be focused...they were not invading..they were migrating. BY 1000 BC Aryans were well settled in northern India, WITH the people of Indus valley civilization who moved east because of drying of sarswati river. During this period these various Aryan settlements were fighting among themselves A BIG EXAMPLE IS WAR OF MAHABHARATA, (which we Indians believe that took place around 3000 BC). Prof. B. B. Lal  found the hastinapur site of mahabharat n evidences that mahabharat was REAL NOT A MYTHOLOGICAL WAR. But the HOLY GITA or Mahabharata was composed (orally and then in script) during a span of 800 yrs dating 400 BC to 400 AD so there were quite a lot of modifications BUT THE SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS OF GITA ARE ABSOLUTE AND PURE AND OF HIGHEST ORDER THAN ANY OTHER RELIGION (but that's a different discussion altogether).

MY point is Aryans were foreigner by the time they came but then they became as much INDIANS as the MUSLIMS who came as invaders THAT'S THE GREATNESS OF INDIA - LOVE AND SHELTER TO ALL, PEACE AND HARMONY ( of which u find written account in Greek n Chinese ancient scripts: other two contemporary civilizations of that time). Now when the BRITISHERs came to india they regarded VEDAS n VEDIC culture as primitive which was a part of their agenda to make indian hate their own history. EXAMPLE : MAX MULLER initially criticized Vedas (but later he was among the scholars who glorified Vedas). it was a racially influenced propaganda to introduce the theory of ARYAN INVASION n prove that english culture is superior.

ARYAN INVASION theory states that aryans came from central asia, conqured north india and brought with them VEDIC culture. Which is not correct, YES, aryans came from central asia but NOT AS INVADERS but as settlers, they brought their culutre and language which EVOLVED into vedic culture n SANSKRIT after coming to india..basically they had seeds which bacame trees ( not a great metamorph). These ayans were the same people who spread in west n then evolved as a different culture n languages there BUT THEY ALL HAD A COMMON ROOTS THATS WHY THERE ARE SIMILARITIES IN LANGUAGE AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGE IS CALLED MOTHER OF ALL LANGUAGES.

novel that i never finished.

guys..here is the prologue of a short novel that i once started writing but never finished. i wrote something like 2 or 3 chapters. Anyways, here it is. hope u’l enjoy it….

Who says rock is noise? After a whole week of courtroom drama coverage, on the channel. Finally the case has ended and channel is looking forward to another hot story to make shows and burn TRP. So, i can enjoy some free time indulging myself in those rogue lyrics of AC DC.
i parked my car by the road side, without even worrying for traffic police. not even police cares in CP after 10’o clock in night. i took a beer out of my car, uncapped it and dropped the cap there only. i wasn’t enjoying the beer or the song playing on my ipod, hell i didn’t even look back to those two foreigner chicks who just passed by. All that was going through my mind was about that boy, the boy who today was declared free of all charges, by the court. Innocent, but dead. He was only19.
As i continued with my beer, i raised to a toast. A toast to friendship. All of his friends stood by him in the court, testified to prove his innocence. And my respect for police increased a bit, for that honest policemen who made efforts and saved that boy and his family from ill repute. I finished my report today by interviewing his friends..and rushed for a beer, but one thing kept on hitting me again and again – 19 is not an age to die.
anyways i shook my head, finished the remaining beer in one go, hit the the volume max and started walking to my car. as i was walking i didn’t realise that i was singing the song out loud. When i saw someone sitting on the bench ahead waving, i checked behind to make sure he was waving to me..yup, he was waving to me. i went up to him.
i said “ yeah, how may i help you.”
-the song you were listening to,it was Highway To Hell. right?
-yes, why do u ask?
-can i listen to it, please?
someone at 10:30 in cp, asks you to let him listen to a particular song from your player. Thats odd..very unusual.
he was an young boy, decent. Looking very sad. i gessed it was breakup or poor results so i let him, while i browsed through few emails on my phone.
after a while he handed me the ipod back and said – thanks, it was long since i heard any classic rock. that struck, what’s his problem, why is he so sad. so i thought i may engage him in talk.
hi i m nitin, probably u know me from live-24 X 7.
he replied- hi, i am ankit. And yeah, i know u…i am a big fan
he was speaking with great zeal .
- infact i am also doing…
he stopped, suddenly all the passion in his eyes was gone. he stood up started walking away..i put my hand on his back
- hey what happened?
and when he turned back, i saw his face for the first time in light. and i was struck with unknown fear, not that horror movie fear. it was indescribable.
i knew who he was, i knew this boy. he was ankit, accused for a murder and then was shot dead in public. he was the boy on whom i was making news reports for about a week.
And i was sitting with him on a bench in cp.
i was in a total shock – dude, you are dead? woh woh..man which brand was that, i am high in a beer only. I need to call a cab, no driving tonight.
-wait man, wait. i am real. real but dead, you are not hallucinating. u dont need to be afraid i haven’t learned those ghost tricks yet.
i was motionless, should i laugh on his joke. What if he takes my laugh in wrong sense, and what if he  gets angry if i dont respond to his jokes. what the fuck !! does ghosts crack joke? shut up nitin its not a ‘curious case of nitin bhatt’ but ‘the fucking case of mr. ghost sitting right in front of you.

what's coming ahead, am i going to return?

with navneet gone for bhopal (for his mba) today i went to the spot all by myself.

Once it was a meeting place for each evening...used to be a gathering of 5 to 6 peoples, then we all passed 12th and now it was time to move on to the next level..me and navneet took admissions. I moved to delhi and he stayed..others also moved on in their own way.

well the pond (the spot) was now visited only in june and jan..when i had my breaks, gathering reduced from 5-6 to 2 , but i never noticed any difference but today i suddenly realised that i dont know where am i heading to?

i want to do mba and then settle with a fat pay-check...but will i ever find any place like the spot.

walking, in faint light coming from the telephone exchange, breeze blowing from the far side of lake felt familiar, it reminded me of times when mind was totally tension free, when there was only 10 or 20 bucks in our pockets; there was nothing like wallet in our minds we were free spirits. today we have more than hundreds, good branded cloths, girlfriend experience-throughly(which we used to think of haha) and still unable to enjoy the calm of that breeze. mind is clustered with thoughts of jobs after studies, mba entrance exam. all these thoughts were wrestling in my mind this evening and my heart was tightly clinging to every bit of innocence floating in the air, the carelessness of the wind, the calm nature of the water.

i can very well see now the upcoming rat race, the 9 to 5 job schedule which easily extends to 10 and even Saturdays and Sundays. "just sitting there I framed a movie (or a novel) scene in which the guy had a job meeting or something in his hometown after which he goes to the places he grew and had goodtimes. now that he knows no one in the locality except few old pair of legs sitting at their front porch he goes to the usual abandoned mill and lights a cigarette and settles for a long session of walk in past memories. he takes a puff or two and then stands, looks around, throws the cigarette didnt even bother to crush it under his shoe and walks out realizing he has moved on. The boy he used to be and man he is are two different persons with different attitude toward life." then i realized that guy maybe me. now that navneet has left the town and my brother also leaving next month, my dad is retiring next year then he'll also leave this town will the evening breeze of THE SPOT be tempting enough for me to come back to this town? with no home and friends here will this be my HOME TOWN?

The spot (pond, from two different angles):

lost : the end || my explanation

lost explanation is simple yet confusing. one thing for sure when jack's father says to him that "there is no now here", means every character died at different times but there time is constant so they meet up together and move on together.
hurley says to ben that he was a great no.2 and ben replied by saying that- you have been a great no.1, shows that they both have done their tasks as the protector of the island and died...its just that they all are joining each other at same place and ame time.

We only know what the people on the Island know. We only know what we experience, and what the people around us experience.

There was no omnipotent narrator on the show, there isn't one in life. What they don't know, we don't know, what Jack doesn't know, we don't know and it's ok. Some things don't need an answer. We make our own destiny, our own kind of music.

Everybody needed the Island to help them find their own purpose, become who they were meant to be.

Claire wasn't ready to be a mother - the Island kept her until she was. Kate wasn't ready to settle down - until she was. Jin and Sun were denying how important they were to each other until they finally understood it. Hurley needed to know he was good and not bad or cursed, that nothing informed his life not even a random set of numbers. Sayid needed to prove to himself he was a good person, Ben and Sawyer needed to do this too. Jack needed to fix himself by fixing everyone else.

In the end the difference between the candidates and say Michael is that they found redemption on the Island, Michael didn't. He murdered someone for non defensive reasons, he remained flawed and that's why he remained on the Island.

This was always Jack's story. He was a Shephard, literally and metaphorically.

Yes the Christian allegory was strong, but I think there was enough to show that religion is not always the only qualifier for faith and that you can be destined for something and still have free will.

Walt and Desmond, they were special. They had their constants, they KNEW themselves and so were in charge of their own destinies. They couldn't find redemption on the island because they didn't need to be redeemed.

The candidates found redemption through free will. They chose their actions and sacrificed for each other. That was the difference between them and say, Ben. That's why Ben never spoke to Jacob, that's why Ben wasn't with them at the end, he was yet to make the sacrifice that would redeem him (though it could also be that he was yet to die), namely to be a father figure to Alex as she grows up in sideways world. Only once he's done that, once he's satisfied her future is secure, will Ben be able to let go. He needed affirmation, and looked for it from the Island but it was the people he thought were a threat to him initially that ended up saving him so to speak.

They were meant to be on the island because the island showed them their power, and everything they did from then on was based on free will.

It wasn't sci-fi, it was a good ol' fashioned character study, greek tragedy, whatever. To have focused on the mysteries is to have missed out on what the show was always about: the journey and experiences of this group of people.

The end was perfect. Think about it.