History Coming Alive in News Through Theft Cases

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This is another way that History is coming into news. A watch gifted to Ex Prime Minister, Late Lal Bhadur Shastri by Alexei Kosygin of Russia when he was in Tashkent Conference in 1966 is stolen.

Sometime back, the Nobel Prize medal awarded to Guru Rabindranath Tagore was stolen. The case was given to CBI but it was closed without any result.

However, what may be the conspiracies behind it, such thefts bring History into news.

Is it not surprising that there is no Conspiracy theories in India? History is an opinion but different from myths. India has always tried to live the myths. India has lived the myths of their heroes who are infallible and therefore their history is sacred without blemish of conspiracies. But, why is it that thieves know better than the nation and disappear with the items which were symbols of the greatness of the Indian heroes. The stolen items are not recovered. But no conspiracy is pursued with the aim of reaching the actual truth. The ambiguity is preserved but thieves escape with the symbols.

Will these stolen items will again bring into news the history again?!!!

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Shastri's watch stolen from his memorial in Delhi - Delhi - City - NEWS - The Times of India

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Conspiracy History Demands Space in Indian Histriography

There is absence of Conspiracy History in Indian Historiography. The Indians have the tendency to worship heroes and make God out of them. Vaishnavism can be interpreted as one of the best case in support of this argument.

Jaswant Singh Book may have troubled BJP on ideology level. However, on the sideline, it has again brought History in News and the aim with which this blog is created stands vindicated.

There are many such patches in Indian History which demands new interpertation and further inquiry. Another important topics are the Subash Chander Bose death, Lal Bahadur Shashtri Death, Shimla Summit, and so on.

The hitched report can be read in light of above mentioned points also.

I am rather satisfied with the aim of this blog as there is a place for "HISTORY IN NEWS"

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Our Heroes, Nehur and Patel but Questioning them without Records! How Fair?

Conspiracy History demands Space in Indian Historiography

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With the release of book of Jaswant Singh, BJP, the controversy of genesis of partition of India in 1947 has again acquired an attention.

The general press and the rival political parties are again indulging in superficial debates with different motives at hand. However, India as a nation must understand that after 1947, there was a need to look at our history from a fresh angle. As Carr said, history requires a continuous dialogue between present and past. We must understand that when we live present, we are not having the perception of the future. We have it in dreams and opinions only. It is only when the future is registered into past, that we can define that in which direction at least we are going. This the beauty and contribution of historic evaluation. It is an ongoing process. History is about and always alive. The need is to imbibe the actual reality as it has existed in present. For that we have to shed our biases and confusions and face the reality as it is even if it hurts. Nehru was great. Jinnah was great. But we have to understand our present problems in right perspective. Remember, in Pakistan Jinnah is great and Nehru was not great. Will you say that truth has two versions. It is not unpatriotic if someone calls a leader of enemy country as a person with stuff. You must take facts as facts. This elucidation may go on and on. In NUTSHELL, there is need to write our history for present times. NOT as REVISIONIST but as the demand of the craft of history. That is the need.

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Check the following report.
Jinnah was a great man: Jaswant Singh - India - NEWS - The Times of India

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Read but defys Cognition

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Yet another claim of reading the Indus Script. It seems to be an annual affair. It means, the History in News must have a separate section on Claims on Reading the Indus Valley Script.

Read the following Report which had appeared sometime back but now it is being carried by Indian Press also.

The Report
Indus script may soon give up its secrets- Hindustan Times: "* icon"

High Court Punjab and Haryana uses Sikh history for defining Sikh Swarup

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In a recent judgement on the Sikh Swarup, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana has used the Sikh history as approved by the Shrimoni Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee.

However, in the academic circle there is a debate that how far approval of an organisation vis-i-vis the actual actual craft of a historian shall given importance. In the era of digital history, this issue has been taken up by the people who have started the new field of knowledge popularly known as Digitial History. On the same lines of argument, the history content of Wikipedia has come under scanner and lot of criticism.

The world of historians do not react to such developments and they prefer to watch the things that happens and the way happens. However, there is need to give freedom to the historians to use their craft while evaluating the past. There should not be any binding or hindrance to the interpertations which they bring out.

The whole report can be read in the following link of Times of India.
Girl who plucked eyebrow not true Sikh, says HC - India - The Times of India

Indus Valley Language in News

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The language of Indus Valley is still an unsolved mystery. The scholars are at it for long time. Therefore it remains in news.

The Times of India Report has some more details which can be accessed at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health--Science/Indus-civilization-was-literate/articleshow/4441822.cms

Similar report from Guardian can be accessed at http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/23/indus-civilisation-language-symbols


However, I will like to make a observation that the attempt to decipher should take help from all the possible scientific means but the history should not be made a news by joining it with some computer programme etc. History has its own logic and knowledge pattern. It may give an algorithm on which computer programmes can be improved. But mere an identification that some pattern is similar to some coding should not make the world excited about history.

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The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation | Netaji prison letters on display

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Netaji Subash Chandra Bose wrote letters to his father between December 1921 and April 1927 from different jails namely, Presidency Jail, Mandalay Central Jail, Rangoon and Insein Jails. They are going to be displayed at Cuttack. The following report has some extracts from those letters.

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Report containing the extracts of the letters of Netaji:
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation | Netaji prison letters on display
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More on Netaji

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On the Swami's birth anniv, his abode in Varanasi remains in oblivion-Varanasi-Cities-The Times of India

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I have not posted for long on this blog. I believe that this post is right way to do the penance and atone the mistake. However, it does not confirm to the idea on which this blog is being envisaged. Anyhow, there is streak of the guiding motive.

Here is quote from the TOI report, the link to which is being given below.
"Just five months before his death (July 4, 1902) the swami was in the city on February 4, 1902, and he stayed here (That was Varnasi: added by the blogger) for a month at Gopal Lal Vila in Cantonment area, the address mentioned in his letters he wrote to his people during his stay. "


This story is about the commemoration which is never going to be the topic of this blog. However, here is the reference is to the place and its association with the great son of India, Swami Vivekananda, which has become a part of the news.

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The link acknowledged and used here:

On the Swami's birth anniv, his abode in Varanasi remains in oblivion-Varanasi-Cities-The Times of India

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