Monday, January 24, 2011

a case of mistaken identity

a typical south-indian can be merely a kannada, telugu, tamil or a malyali...not just a tamilian

as famously said..ek telugu aur tamil main itna farak hain..jitba ek punjabi aur bihari main...


to b contd...

my new fascination


well of late i have given a lot of tym...going down the pages of past...n trust me it was fascinating knowing few things..here are the excerpts from the study..

egyptian, indus, maya civilizations..
greeks and hellenic periods..rise of macedonian kings..alexander the great of greece....his conquests..his advanced military capabilities..
ashoka the great ..advancement of buddhist beliefs further east.. rise of mauryan empire..unification of india..
death of alexander..his satraps..seleucus nicator..indo-greeks...
rise of rome,downfall of greece....resemblences between greek paganism and hinduism...rise of christianity..pagans suppressed ..exile of jews..from alexandria..death of hypatia..death of mark anthony,cleopatra..augustus emperor of romans...
birth of islam...peak of abrahamic religions...rise and conquests of islam..arrival into india...spreading across iran, north west africa...and further west till turkey..crusades..fall of constantinople..
mughals in india..akbar the great..survival of hinduism. finally the ..wars fought on the name of gods..
n yeah bismark, unification of germany..causes of world war1...
rise of hitler, nazi germany...france defeated..englands survival..role of united states..japan's intrests in east..disintegration of austria n hungary empire..
rise of china n ussr...cold war..bipolar world..india's post independence era..n its relatively successful story..crisin in indian sub continent..from pak(internal terror),bangladesh(human rights), mayanmar(dictatorship), srilanka(ltte)...