Chat with the man behind Story of India
I received a mail from Amy Baroch, the senior project manager for PBS working on a series called Engage and she pointed out an interesting set they are doing with Michael Wood: http://www.pbs.org/engage/
I am writing to let you know that PBS Engage is featuring Story of India documentary filmmaker, Michael Wood, as part of the ongoing PBS Engage series called “Five Good Questions.”
The series features a PBS celebrity or insider and asks visitors to send in questions to be answered the following week. The blog series has been very successful and we are thrilled to have Michael Wood as our feature this week.
This is a chance for visitors to ask him about his 20+ years as a historian, traveler, author, and broadcaster as well as his latest project, Story of India which begins airing tonight on PBS.
I apologize for the tardiness in posting at this website, but you'll seem more activity soon. Keep sending in your articles and stories.
Have a very happy new year :-)
posted by Vibhanshu | 10:28 AM
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Aryan Immigration- British Myth Exposed
I like to bring the attention of the viewers to a statement found in the book called "A Survey of Hinduism", second edition by Klaus K. Klostermaier, published by the State University of New York Press,ISBN0-7914-209-0,in 1994. See page 477, "The formerly held notion that the invasion of the Aryans, the Vedic Indians, brought a sudden and violent end to the Indus civilization is all but abandoned."
The key to undertstanding the subject is to trace a river called Saraswati that was mentioned in Rigveda, Maha Bharata and other books. It was a large and long river that ran parallel to the present Indus at places having a width of almost 8 km. When I read this description I was reminded of the great river Amazonas at Manaus, Brazil, a huge river that looked like an ocean. This Saraswati river dried up and traces of it were discovered by Satellite imagery. As a matter of fact old Geological Survey papers by one OLDHAM in 19th century refer to the present Khakkar as the Saraswathi. The British adept at divide and rule policy completely ignored their own Geological Survey findings and let a missionary Max Muller dictate the history of India to divide the South from the North India. The pseudo scholar and a Protestant partisan Max Muller played to the tune of his British masters. Later he retracted the theory at the behest of his masters and said there was no Aryan race. Read his biography. As a matter of fact the word is only an adjective. There was no race called Aryans. It suited the bloody British propaganda. Read also History of India by John Keay, an Independent British Historian, where he refutes the Aryan invasion.
Any way the radio carbon dating of the soil samples from river Khakkar gives a figure of 8000 BCE. That means Rigveda and Maha Bharata were written before Harappa. So the so called Aryans were present in various parts of India including in the South long before Harappan civilization. They could not have destroyed the much later Harappan civilization.
What Wood is trying is resurrect in his Story of India the abandoned British propaganda. This is at best disingenuous and at worst the Anglo propaganda.
Naveen Chandra, chandraalex@hotmail.com
Naveen, your theory looks interesting but till now the world has not seen conclusive proof one way or the other. Either there is no clear evidence or the once who have them do not want to come out for selfish motives.
Though I think there is some credence to the claim you made about the early Vedic period starting before the IVC.
The underwater excavations around Gujarat dating back 9000 years support this claim.
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