The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation

A great deal of attention is vouchsafed on denying the antiquity and extent of
the Indic civilization and thereby granting India the respect ,which the Indics
feel is rightfully hers, due as a consequence of her valuable contributions to
human civilization. Further almost the entire western media starting from the
Economist magazine to the Washington Post has been consistently critical of
India’s economic performance and especially scathing in individual instances
such as the liberation of the Portuguese enclave of Goa and the declaration that
India would henceforth be a Nuclear weapons state. It is as if India could get
nothing right. It is understandable that Europe would be antagonistic,
particularly since the independence of India set the ball rolling for the
dismantlement of the Colonial empire. There is however no apparent reason for
America to take an anti Indian stand right from 1948, when they voted against
India on the Kashmir issue. There is even less reason to depict the Sanatana
Dharma in the demeaning light in which it is generally portrayed in the media
today.
In those instances where the Indics have sought to correct the record, such as
in the case of the blatantly egregious conjuring of the Aryan Invasion Theory
they have been accused of nationalistic bias. Never mind that when it was
postulated by Max Mueller it was never put forth other than as a conjecture and
a hypothesis, and as admitted by Max Mueller himself that ‘no power on earth
will be able to determine the true age of the Vedas’. Never mind also that the
original endeavor to study the ancient texts was explicitly in order to denigrate
them and to demonstrate to the Indic all that was reprehensible in their tradition.
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