Abhishek Chatterjee Online

The Land of Gods: This article tries to find an answer to the age old questions that have baffled many through ages, i.e. From where did the Indo-Europeans come? What causes the linguistic similarity? Why did they separate? I try to answer these questions from the Indian (Hindu) perspective.

This article is just a Critical Analysis, and in no way a fool proof claim. I haven't been to the past, so I use Logic.

Globally Accepted Facts
Hinduism - Factually accepted to be the Oldest Religion
Vedas - Factually accepted to be the Oldest Religious Script as well as the Oldest written Document (hence symbolising the most ancient literate society)
Aryans (Aryas') - The common race from which Europeans and Indians (also Irani's) are known to have been derived. Aryan is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Arya' meaning 'A Noble Person'. Unfortunately a psycho German tainted the term, but 'Arya' was never a race, but a society of people with one belief. But yes Indian race is just a tanned version of the caucassian race (genetically proved).
Proto-Indo-Europeans - The Aryans (Europeans and Indians) were known to be a single society at one distant point of time, which we cannot trace. Hence Historians call it Proto-Indo-European era.
Proto-Indo-European - The common language from which Latin/Greek/Sanskrit were derived, and in turn from which the modern day Languages have been derived. English is a close derivative of Sanskrit like major other European languages, as we will see.

Aryan Invasion Theory - Max Muller, a British Linguist, bred a theory called the Aryan Invasion theory, after realising that the Language spoken in the Indian Subcontinent was very much similar to his. According to him, Aryans originated in eastern Europe/Central Asia (Southern Russian Steppes). A pack of them migrated south and formed the 'Vedic India'. (The theory is highly debated and doesn't properly fit the picture, as we will see).

Now I begin a quest into what the old civilization might have been like. Assuming Hinduism was formed after one segment of Aryans moved south into Northern India, we will be admitting that the initial Proto-Indo-European (PIE) society didn't have an organised religion. But however we see that the one of the very core English words, MAN, is derived from a Hindu mythology of a person called "Manu". In hindi we call "man" Manav and in Sanskrit, Manushya (Manu + Shishya = Followers of Manu).

Hinduism existed in the PIE period
It is known that the word "Manu" is synonymous with the Vedas. Manu, the saviour of mankind, is hailed throughout all the four Vedas. Hence either Vedas were written prior to emmigration, or somehow the word travelled north back to the Northern residents and got in popular use. The latter case is straight away impractical. Every european culture has the word "Manu" as the root of the word "Man" but none provide a legend behind it. Also, the word never travelled north, since the Aryan invasion theory is flawed, as we see later. Hence Vedas were written prior to seperation. Hence the PIE society did follow Hinduism or Vedic Culture to be precise.

Indian's aren't Aryans migrated from the North
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A760240
Check that link, and look at the last Ice Age periods. Considering we still had 'Cold Snaps' till 3000BC, it's evident that the best place to inhibit (in Asia/Europe) was India for the past 20,000 years. Supporters of Aryan Invasion Theory claim that Veda's describe War with local inhabitants of India. Yes, true, and it also says that those local inhabitants (dursyaas) were eliminated in the battle. I agree that aryans did migrate into India from the North but they were the original tribal aryans that existed 15000 years back. 15000 years back man had just learned to cultivate crops and live a civilized life, form society and protect its existence. There may not even be a formal spoken language, let alone a written language or script. To explain that, suppose I have just learned to write and I sit down to write Indian History, I will write, "The greatest Indian King of all time was Ashoka, the sinner turned saint, the emperor who ruled from dawn to dusk (east to west)." Then I also go on to mention that the best modern day Prime Minister of India was "AB Vajpayee". What I miss is the time gap. There is a gap of 2300 years. Veda's describe everything in accurate detail, but fail to mention the Timeline. It seems everything is described in quick succession, but actually, a long span of time has been covered in "Past Tense". So when Historians analyse the Vedas, they are simply unable to decipher the time line codes.
So what's the proof that Aryan's didnt come from north? The fact that not even a Single European land is mentioned in the Vedas. Ofcourse, that place was uninhabitable for a long period. Veda's never speak of comming down from the North. It just mentions the capturing of land around the River Saraswati and killing of Dursyas. I had a speak with an Archeologist and he supported the Timeline misguidance concept. The killing of Dursyas and settling around river saraswati was an ancient History, when man had just learnt the art cultivation and civilization.

Flaw of the Aryan Invasion Theory
Aryan Invasion Theory has been contradicted all together with the Discovery of the Ancient City of Dwarka which is submerged in the sea as of now (and as described in Mythology). The city dates to be as old as 7000 years. The Aryans were known to have arrived in India only by 3000-1500BC. So how come a city 7000 years old, located at the exact spot where the Sacred Hindu text, Mahabharata describes it to be, was found? And above all, unlike most discovered ancient cities, this one is Submerged in the sea, exactly as happened in Mahabharata. The Mahabharata very clearly states that the city sank in the sea after the death of Lord Krishna. Not only does this discovery INTENSIFY the truth factor behind Mahabharata, it converts the Mythology factor to History factor.

The society described in Mahabharata was the PIE Society
Yes, now this would be the major claim. From here, I would like you to research a bit on Mahabharata, and judge for yourself. Mahabharata describes a Very Very advanced society with modern infrastructure. Any person well versed with the literature, would deem it to be fictional, due to the sheer amount of advancement described.
I believe that it was the PIE society that was described then. They spoke Sanskrit (what about Greek/Latin?), and believed in the Vedic Culture. Vedic culture was even more sophisticated than the present day Hinduism.

Why was Sanskrit the PIE Language? Why not Greek or Latin?
Study Sanskrit and you will know for yourself. It is the MOST ADVANCED AND MOST WELL DEFINED LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD. This is not a claim but a proven Fact. It is the ONE AND ONLY UNAMBIGUOUS GRAMMAR. If Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing was developed, Sanskrit is the only Language that a computer would be able to understand without a single problem. Sanskrit is the OLDEST SPOKEN/WRITTEN LANGUAGE. The Devnagri script, in which Sanskrit is written, has this special property that when letters are made from hollow tubes with openings at the end, you pump air from any end, and the alphabet will make a sound as it does when spoken! Devnagri script is still in use in Hindi. And, like told before, there are certain words in Greek/Latin, which have no legend behind them, but have one in Sanskrit.

How did the society break up? How were new cultures ever formed?
The Vedas describe the cycle of evolution of life in four yugas (epochs/era)
1. Satya Yuga or Krita Yuga (Zero Vice, No one lies, every one is spiritual)
2. Treta Yuga (Vice is introduced, Ramayana happened in this Yuga)
3. Dvapara Yuga (Vice starts gaining popularity. Mahabharata was fought in this Yuga/era. With the end of Maharabharat, this Yuga ended.)
4. Kali Yuga (Vice at its height. Immorality everywhere, and evil will be at its such heights, that Lord Shiv - The destroyer, will himself take an incarnation and end the Yuga. After that the Satya yuga will prevail.)

Now as mentioned, the Mahabharata ends, and so does the Dvapara Yuga. It's an interesting read of how Mahabharata ended. It ended with the final use of a weapon called "Brahmastra".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmastra
This weapon has been speculated to be a nuclear weapon. The way devastation has been explained, is synonymous only with a Nuclear Weapon. Also the practical detail cannot be pure fiction. Like the author says, it had power of 1000 suns, there was an incandescent column of smoke, when the bomb exploded, pottery broke miles away. Soldiers who had come in contact of radiation removed their protections and dived into water/river. Nails and hairs of soldiers fell. No one survived within a radius of many cities. There would be a famine for 12 years and mankind would end.

Apart from that, if you google a bit, you will learn that there is sufficient evidence that Indus valley civilization was wiped out by a nuclear explosion.

Hence my straight forward, simple and logical explanation of how societies divided, and everything was re-initiated from scratch.

For those who would disagree saying that this much technology was not possible then, I say, where were we 500 years back? Horse drawn chariots and swords? When we talk of a span of 7000 years at the minimum, couldn't these 500 years have happened then?
Also if you read about the Nine Unknown Men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Unknown_Men) you will see, how the Sinner turned Saint (Ashoka), tried to prevent misuse of technology. I also suggest reading about the Ancient Indian Vimaans. The Indo-Europeans were indeed very much ahead in technology.

Unique facts of Hinduism
It's a very scientific religion, and has never debarred anyone from scientific research. India invented modern Mathematics (Decimal system, algebra etc). India has had the best medical science, acknowledged even today, Ayurveda. The science of Breathing, Yoga, is simply revolutionary.

> Lord Krishna makes a very rare statement in the Gita: "Time is the seed of Universe" (If there is no time, there is no universe).
Einstein loved that.

> Moksha can be achieved by three (very logical) ways:
By submitting yourself to God
By Karma (Well doing for others)
By gaining Knowledge (This one is rare.)

> God is defined as 'Sarvagya' (The one who has unlimited knowledge)
> Everything is made up of five elements. Earth Fire Water Air and Ether. The five elements are basically the five states of matter. Earth = Solid, Water = Liquid, Air = Gas, Fire = Plasma
It is well evident that they put Ether = Empty space, also as a state of matter. And that is the most authentic part of it. By the statement of Lord Krishna, we know they knew about Space-Time. As we know today, anything that occupies space in Space-Time. is a form of matter. And hence so is Ether.

This is an ad-on:

Lingual Similarities in English-Sanskrit
These are just a few of thousands of such words.
I will just list the core words of English and their Sanskrit/Hindi equivalents.

English Sanskrit
-------- ----------
Mother Maatru
Father Pitra/Pither (English root word 'pater' comes from this e.g. Paternal, paternity)
Brother Bhraatu
Name Naam
I am Aham
That Tat
is as
My mum (Hindi: mera)
Young Yuv
New Nav
so so (so is same in both english and sanskrit)
Man Manav/Manushya
Create Kriya/Crea (In englishe we add 'ate' to whatever we want to convert into noun-verb, like elongate, deviate etc)

English has many vocubalary based words derived from languages like Latin/Greek, but the fact remains that the Core Words (the words learnt when you begin to grow) are from Sanskrit.

Some vocubalary based words:

Dexterity Dakshta
Progress Pragati
Existence Astitva
Exist Asti
Punch Paanch/Punch (Punch is same in English and Sanskrit meaning 5)
juggernaut JagannAth (Hindi), literally, lord of the world (right)- Massive inexorable force, or an object that crushes whatever is in its path.
Grammar based similarities:

I read many, but can't remember a lot except the suffix 'ic'. It is absolutely same in Hindi, Sanskrit and English.
In english we say Sporadic, Fantastic, Idiotic etc etc...
Similarly in Sanskrit we say Prodyougic, Kaalpanic, Aarthic etc etc
One word that emerges same from both the Languages (that I can remember) is Vedic. Its same in Sanskrit/Hindi and English.

Well although so far so good. We are getting great free services from this company. But in this regard i would like to mention you the demat account case of Jodhpur.

Some photo studio's came up with this very kewl free trial scheme where you could get your free snaps taken and developed. Under this trial scheme, thousands of people exploited the scheme and got their snaps done. No one bothered to think why the shop was giving out free snaps and how it was making profit from it. Then only to realise one day that a scam had been uncovered, and their names and photos were used to register thousands of false demat accounts.

I am not saying google will exploit us that bad, but it can do some interesting stuff with it. It can become the bad medicine that Microsoft has become for us. We don't want to take it, but can't live without it.

After all if I have a business and I want to use a business email, why not buy an email account? Rather than relying on Gmail. You never know when Gmail decides that you have broken policies and shuts your account. Apart from that, you are simply handing over your personal data to gmail, which is surely not the best deed. (Since we have this quite infamous rumour that they don't delete a single mail that you recieve.)

Now we have this new service called Google Calendar, which seems just as dubious as its Gmail service. With being able to let others sync to our calendars, its a really innovative method of letting others know of your schedule so that they can adjust their schedules etc. Despite all the plus points it just moves one step closer to occupying every user's online life. I don't know about others, but I don't know why I would like people to know about my schedules. If they want to sync with me, they can always ask. What if I throw a private party to selected few, and one of those makes a Google calendar entry? I would face 'discrimination charges' from my all other contacts.
Apart from that, it has the wierd strategy of importing calendars. It allows you to import calendars from outlook, evolution etc, but not export back. Well that is fishy enough to discuss further.

I am fine with softwares like Evolution where I can do most of my day to day scheduling jobs. Some how I have been gripped by Gmail. I still can't figure out how to get rid of it. It's far more simpler to have a 3GB easily searcheable mailbox than burning your archived emails onto CD/DVDs (that i used to do earlier). However wonderful, I still find it a real risky business to deal with. I am still trying my best to get back to my previous routine.

In the end I would like the readers to rethink and decide the share of their lives that they would like to place in Google's hand.

Now there is something definitely very wrong with the Map of India shown in the HCL's ad of People Less office.

Kashmir has been cut off from the LoC as it seems. That is not the way an Indian company should be showing India's Map, that too on Indian TV channels. Whoever made this ad should be fined for the act.

It is a humiliation for the Indians, we do not follow the American mapping standards. I don't know how many have noticed this, but something should be done about it.

Now the HCL's animated characters are waiting to be named! Well yeah call them bunty bubbly who cares? Atleast straighten the god damn map of our mother land!

I write this to enlighten all the students appearing for Hexaware Fresher recruitment via G4 Solutions...

I must tell all of you that G4 is an absolute bullshit. www.g4careermapping.com
They charge you Rs. 450/- for giving their CBT and then take a GD process.

The hilarious part is, those short listed by G4 are by no means the final interview candidates!!! (unlike claimed by them) At the last moment the Hexaware people will walk  in and say that we have slight change in plans... and then they will take another written which is hilariously out of common man's bounds. They ask electronics questions to Comp. Sci people and all kinds of awkward questions which you would have definitely not expected. Hence, that round becomes a "Fluke" round.

What the hell!!! If Hexaware didnt trust G4 why the hell did it outsource the selection process to it??? Knocks me off. I got eliminated in the "Fluke" round... I tried to convince the so called in charge of Hexaware selection process to consider me for an interview (after all i had cleared all previous rounds and this round wasnt expected) but he was too arrogant to even listen.

I suggest to everyone, that please do not go for the recruitment process if being conducted by G4 Solutions. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE WEIRD SELECTION PROCEDURE UNTIL AND UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO THROW OFF 450 bucks.