Historians like Romilla Thappar are biased to the core and are Hindu bashing persons. I saw her article on The Hindu, in which she asserts that the Lanka mentioned in the epic Ramayana is not the present SriLanka. In her article she conveniently omits the places mentioned in Ramayana in far south, for instance, Sabarimala in Kerala, where Sabari(who was given salvation by Lord , Ram) lived ,Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu which is the starting point of the sethu(bridge) where Lord Rama installed a Shiva Linga and worshipped. River Pampa, which flowed alongside the Monkey Kingdom of Kishkintha . Also there is no mention of the Srilankan epic Mahavamsa dating back to 200 years before the time of Asoka the Mauryan, during the times of King Vijaya of Lanka. The ancient capital of Sri Lanka was Anuradhapura. There is definitely sanskrit names and influences in the island before the times of Emperor Asoka and also mention of Lanka in Mahavamsa which narrates the history of the island before Asoka's times. Just because King Vijaya (500 BCE?) named the island Tamraparni and in one Asokan inscription the island was called Tamraparni one cannot conclude that the island's name was Tamraparni and not Lanka. So people who blame some historians as biased and proponents of Hindutwa must know the real face of these kind of Hindu bashing historians too.
RE:RE:Know the real truth about some historians
by Ramasubbu on Oct 06, 2007 10:17 PM Permalink
EMS NNN - your claim is only based on mythological arguments. There was no Ram, no proof, and no Ram worshippped sivalinga. Please stop claiming things on the basis of harry potter epics.Sabari malai is original dravid place and dravid god. you can call it Ram, brahma, vishnu or whatever avatar, this is vedic paint coating.
RE:Know the real truth about some historians
by Jeffrey Mittal on Oct 05, 2007 10:05 PM Permalink
Romilla Thappar is one of the most morally corrupt Indian writers. Her pseudo-secularist agenda, from JNU is not create a fair rendition of history but to distort the truth and gang up with her minions to denigrate the Sanatana Dharma.
This divide and rule play is still being effectively used to destroy Hindu unity.
They feel lying is not wrong as long as it put down the Hindus. Are Hindus at fault for not knowing their own history and allowing themselves to be manipulated by the likes of Romilla Thapar and her pseudesecular gang? Yes, we are
RE:Know the real truth about some historians
by Ramasubbu on Oct 06, 2007 10:14 PM Permalink
Hinduism is most modern religion which is 500 years old, created by britishers by mixing 1000 of local cults, religions and 44 crores deities and gods.
