[Reader-list] 'Krishna existed. The school texts are wrong': says nuclear scientist

[anupam chakravartty]

I am wary of anthropological investigations because they always render
skeletons from the closet. Here the scientists are just touching the tip of
the iceberg in form astrological positions. My expertise in astrology is as
juvenile as the claim that a character called Krishna existed because there
was a real planetary position. It certainly is a matter of immense
importance to have more interesting data about the authors of these texts
namely Mahabharata and Ramayana. In the sense, a certain way of locating
fictitious event and to make it seem real, locate the event with real star
positions. If the aryan feudal battles were recorded with the star
positions, that also is important contribution to the history writing. Would
be interested to know more about this project rather than basing my opinion
on a news report. This would be an important revelation and I look forward
to it.

After reading this news report, it take me back to a phase when I was
fascinated with Erick Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods, and then
... suddenly someone told me about a bunch of people committing
suicide thinking about of the some kind of superior race of aliens
hovering above this planet waiting to take them to heaven.

-anupam
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Kshamendra
>
> I have no issues with people having interest in all such activities, as I
> include myself in some of these. But I believe there are larger issues to
> be
> solved for the people across the world, so we need not spend public funds
> on
> such things. What we can ask is for the corporates to fund these things, as
> this requires painstaking research and money, which is already in a crunch,
> and only once public requirements are fulfilled, we can think of other such
> issues.
>
> Rakesh
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