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Abstracts of Speakers International Seminar on “How Deep are the Roots of Indian Civilization? An Archaeological and Historical Perspective”

Keynote Address delivered by Professor B. B. Lal (Former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India) For quite some time a series of postulates have been distorting our vision of India's past. Some of these are: 1. The Vedas are no o....

December 03, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies

Islam’s Dilemmas: Perspectives From a Non Islamic Angle

A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)

Islam encompasses all the nobilities that every other religion has, compassion, love, justice, brotherhood, equality etc. but it also poses several dilemmas. The dilemmas arise, as the values instilled by Islam were those needed for bringing order....

August 29, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies

Islam and its many Trends

A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)

Except the war zones, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan and the proxy war zones Kashmir and India, for quite sometime the rest of the world has not witnessed a major terrorist incident. The credit for this goes to the high grade counter terrorism measu....

August 29, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies

Memorial for Martyrs of Massacres

Om Prakash Sharma

The Polish President who perished on April 10, 2010 in the air crash along with the top hierarchy of that country was on his way to pay homage to 22000 Poles massacred in cold blood by the red Army of Stalin. Known as the Katyn massacre, it was a mas....

May 12, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies

Sarasvati: A Symbol of the Sacredness of the Indian Civilisation

Michel Danino, the well known author of the "Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati" gave a fascinating presentation on the archeological and geological evidence regarding the existence of this once mighty river that was the life stream of the Ind....

May 01, 2010 Vimarsh , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Aryan theory , Hakkar- Ghagra , Harappan , Indus valley civilization , Lost River , Michel Danino , Sarasvati , Saraswati

Arunachal has world’s largest Shivlingam

Alluding to a prophecy in the Shiv Puran, former Arunachal MP and Congress leader Kiren Rijuju on Saturday said that the world’s largest Shivlingam has been discovered in the state. “The discovery of more than 22 feet tall lingam was made a fe....

March 23, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Interaction , Arunachal , Land of Rising Sun , Chinese claim

Religious Terrorism: Civilisational Context and Contemporary Manifestations

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Transcending time and space, religions have influenced civilisations-in cultural, social, material and spiritual arenas- more profoundly than any other single factor. Tangible achievements of man’s possessive and creative impulses, struggle for ....

March 11, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies

4th Netaji Subhash Memorial Lecture

The fourth in the Annual Netaji Subhash Memorial lecture series on Netaji’s birth anniversary – January 23 was organized at FICCI on 23 Jan 2010 by Netaji Subhash Bose – INA Trust with active support from Vivekananda International Foundation....

February 12, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Interaction , Netaji Subhash Memorial Lecture