I like Sheela Bhatt's writing. however it is dismaying to see words like "Aryans from Iran" & "Perseopolis" creep into her writing. "Arya" is a vedic sanskrit word for "noble" with probably a Persian counterpart, and has nothing to do with "Race", contrary to what 19th century Western Imperialist ideology (Max Mueller, etc) would have us believe. And why call the Persian empire by what the Greeks, a foreign culture called them? Is'nt the word "Persian" good enough without the Greek endorsement?
