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Raju Hirani explains how conflict, of almost all kinds, is simply a difference of points of view, and how, despite being a bit of an activist at heart, he's not trying to change the world
Raju Hirani explains how conflict, of almost all kinds, is simply a difference of points of view, and how, despite being a bit of an activist at heart, he's not trying to change the world
It is somewhat known in Korea because Homer Hulbert (whom I mentioned above) published his thoughts on it in Korea and the Chinese-centric researchers in Korea pooh-poohed it (naturally), as the idea that Korean had influences from anything but Chinese is tough for them to stomach. And to be fair, there is much less written evidence on this for academicians to use, as we are talking about old times from much more than a couple of millennia away, and there is much more written material on how Chinese influenced Korean in the last 2 millennia. But the Chinese influence on Korean is no more than Sanskirt's influence on Malayalam, Telugu or Kannada - which is that words (a lot of them, nearly 2/3rd of the vocabulary) were borrowed by completely Tamil-based languages. Absolutely nothing more. Sanskrit couldn't change a thing about the structure or base words of S.Indian languages. Same with what Chinese did to Korean which is an entirely different language with zero similarity to Chinese in structure or base words. The structure of Dravidian languages and Korean are strikingly similar (and in more ways than among other subject-object-verb languages). So are the connection in many base (pre-civilization?) words. But nothing is known in India about the language connection, though the Koreans have heard that something might be there, without details.prasen9 wrote:My Korean colleague had told me of the connection. Of course, he used Indian instead of Dravidian. Then, my daughter's Korean piano teacher told me the same with references. So, it may be that in Korea more people know of this connection. (Or at least two random Koreean-Americans do.)
I never believed the Aryan invasion theory that some civilized group came to India, and never really understood the huge drive to "debunk" it either. I grew up being told by my father that Aryans are some peoples who developed as a civilization in the Saraswati Valley which must be somewhere in the area between Afghanistan and Bengal. This was in the early 70s before NASA images and other research confirmed the exact location of the Saraswathi river as at the india-Pakistan border area. Who cares what the West thinks about it (after all their history was forced to be constrained at some 4000 BC or whenever the universe was created suddenly).sanjay5goel wrote:Jay - have you read Breaking India by Rajiv Malhotra?
If not, highly recommended to read it. One thing it debunks the Aryan - Dravidian theory that the British manipulated.
Another is that is well nigh debunks (based on all actual research done on the subject) the Aryan Invasion theory - which was just that - a theory.
Hare Krishna!