Who are the guys living in India today?

Who is a modern Indian? What I am trying to understand and ask is who are the people living in India today?

The country has a known history of about 12000 years. If you look at the Geography around India, you will find that it is a land of rivers. A town like Belgaum has over 100 streams of fresh water. The state of Punjab is called as the land of five rivers. The surrounding countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, China, and Burma are basically deserts. So it is natural that people from these countries traveled into India and many stayed there.

There is a saying in India that there are 18 different styles of turbans and 1800 different races in India. This should tell us how many different kind of people live in the country.

All these different people were welcome into the Hindu community, with out any qualms. It goes to the credit of the open mindedness of the people of the region that everyone has been welcome into their folds, irrespective of the race or religion.

Keeping that in perspective, I am always surprised that people call the Hindus as fanatics and intolerant. There are fanatics in every religion, and those are always bad for every religion. However let us consider the fact that how many different races are living in that country, before we start calling those guys names.

Vedic Intelligence

For a long time, I heard and learned that the Aryans came and conquered India around 1500 BC. Somehow, that never made any sense to me. I always wondered that if that was the case, did Ramayana and Mahabharata ever take place in India? I have been reading those sacred texts ever since I can remember and my curious mind always wanted to know the truth.

Finally Ajit, my brother-in-law, sent me a link about a research on this.

Google video about Vedic Intelligence

Having been to many of these cities myself, I always believed that somehow there was some fact in the Vedas. I think, somehow, this research tells me that things really happened as described in the Vedas.