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Tag: "Indo European"

History of India: The First Indians

I am a traveler. I have had the privilege to travel within India and also many other parts of the world. Traveling is very important to us human beings. We inhabit this beautiful planet called Earth that is traveling on its orbit around the Sun at the rate of 108,000 Kilometers/Hour!! Irrespective of whether we [...]

Tamil is Part of Indian Heritage

I am from Kerala but I lived in Tamil Nadu (mostly in Madurai and Coimbatore) for a couple of decades.  Due to state government policies then I was forced to learn Tamil during my school days.  I did not like being pressured to learn a new language but I am now glad that I did [...]

My Caste is Human

For the first time in over 70 years the Indian government is very likely to include the question of a person’s caste in the Census.  This should not come as a surprise to many Indians.  The Congress Party led UPA government has done its best to slice and dice the Indian population in whichever way [...]

Incredible India – Romani People

All of us know what the Germans did to the Jewish people under Adolf Hitler.  About six million Jews from Europe were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany in what is known as the Holocaust.  But the Jews were not the only victims of Nazi Germany.  The Nazis also targeted the Polish, Soviet prisoners of wars, [...]

Promoting and Preventing the Tamil Language From Extinction

The Chennai Corporation has started enforcing the rule that shops in the city should display name boards in Tamil.  According to the corporation the names and details in Tamil should occupy at least 50% of the total space.  Such laws have been in the books in Chennai and most other parts of Tamil Nadu for [...]