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2012 – Will the world end??? – Part three

July 4, 2010 – 2:14 PM | Comments Off | 387 views
2012 – Will the world end??? – Part three

Continued from the last article…
WHAT IS THE VEDIC VIEW
VEDIC TIME
The Vedic system of the four yugas presents the lengths of the ages as 4,3,2, and 1 times an interval of 432,000 years. That means the …

2012 – Will the world end?? – Part one

July 4, 2010 – 1:15 PM | No Comment | 353 views
2012 – Will the world end?? – Part one

December 21, 2012. The Internet, bookshelves, and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as we know it.
Whether …

Lord Krishna – History or Mythology

April 10, 2010 – 11:48 AM | No Comment | 2,436 views
Lord Krishna – History or Mythology

By Jaideep Sahu
“Most certainly Krishna is a historical personality”, says Dr Manish Pandit, a nuclear medicine physician who teaches in the United Kingdom, proffering astronomical, archaeological, linguistic and oral evidences to make his case.
“I used …

2012 – Will the world end??? – Part two

March 15, 2010 – 11:27 AM | No Comment | 403 views
2012 – Will the world end??? – Part two

Continued from the last article…
WHAT DOES THE MAYAN CALENDAR PREDICT?
The Maya calendar doesn’t end in 2012, as some have said, and the ancients never viewed that year as the time of the end of the …

Lord Rama – Fact or Fiction? Part-II

March 9, 2010 – 11:30 AM | No Comment | 1,091 views
Lord Rama – Fact or Fiction? Part-II

By Stephen Knapp
This article is second and last in series of articles establishing the historicity of Ramayana
People from many other regions of the world have also accepted the Ramayana as worthy of attention, devotion, and …

Lord Rama – Fact or fiction? Part-I

March 8, 2010 – 11:00 AM | No Comment | 3,526 views
Lord Rama – Fact or fiction? Part-I

By Stephen Knapp
This article is first in series of articles establishing the historicity of Ramayana
The idea of whether Lord Rama exists or not has been called into question, by some prominent politicians in India. These …

Taj Mahal

February 7, 2010 – 6:07 AM | 3 Comments | 2,751 views
Taj Mahal

No one has ever challenged this so-called reality about Taj Mahal except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the …