So many things are possible. But contact with other languages than Dravidian isn't known to have that specific effect, whereas Tamiļ as the purest Dravidian language does stand out by the trait.

The "Germanic loans in Chinese" comes from a paper in Harvard's Sino-Platonic Papers, by Chang Tsung-tung, professor in Frankfurt. I had agreed to come & meet him & see his documents, but just then he died. His widow was very cooperative but turned hostile after some students /1

This "Europe Invasion Theory" would be partly correct: EU *was* invaded, the force not evidenced in India was in plenty in EU ca. 2500 BCE, & even w/out fore, the result was a real Invasion: native languages & large % of population disappeared. But that name doesn't pinpoint a /1

2/ Homeland, so you (not Jijith) are suggesting a unfit name. You're wrong in insinuating that he is imposing his own choice of name on the AIT. For 90% of its history, its espousers themselves have called it AIT. The name-change is a silent admission of a lack of archaeo proof.

2/ or colleagues had tried to take control of them for their own fame, or so I understood. Not heard of anything on that front since.

As for PIE-Austronesian contacts, this is not an invention of some Hindu amateurs but already has a long life with top Indo-Europeanists like I. Dyen & goes back to Franz Bopp ca. 1840. Maybe they were all wrong, those Westerners, but the usual Western pooh-poohing won't do.

This "IE cipher" seems to refer to a very recent development, viz. the claimed decipherment of the Harappan script though the cryptographic method. If this Sanskritic decipherment gets confirmed, then that entirely changes the picture. So drop the rest & focus on testing it.

18 years ago to the day, on 31 July 2007, my native heart was operatively replaced with a donor heart. The memory fills me with gratitude. I hope my achievements since then have made the donor's sacrifice worth it.

To third parties unfamiliar w/ Sanātana Dharma: why highlight an 18th anniversary when I rarely do anniversaries, not even of round numbers? Because 18 is not just any number. This not because of cultural facts, like 18 being the number of chapters in the Gītā, days in the MBh /1

We don't worship Jesus anymore. Ms call that idol-worship (the Quranic term Mušrik, "associator", refers both to Polytheists & Xians), us scientific-tempered moderns call it a person-cult. Instead, let's worship Gaņeśa! No, not the Asian elephant but our native Woolly Mammoth. /1

Just a few miles from where I live, in the Antwerp University Hospital, based in Edegem; cardiologist was the late Viviane Conraads, surgeon Inez Rodrigus. Yes, women have reached the top! But the operation is now quite common. Walk into your local barbershop & they'll do it.

2/ Our ancestors, being wilder than you, hunted him to extinction. But now a recovered mammoth genome is being implanted in an Indian mother elephant (Gaņapatnī?) (where else to go for better hospitality?), so soon we'll worship our own cathedral-friendly woolly Gaņeśa.

Yes, till my dying day. The cells of some transplant organs, like the liver, get soon replaced by the body's own cells. In muscle tissue like the heart, this takes long. Keep in mind, however, that in fields like this, science progresses quickly, so my info may get outdated soon.

3/ But until then, an Orientalist w/ his heart in the right place has to make do w/ Hāthī, the Indian tusker. Here accompanied by Gāyatrī, personification of a prayer to the Rising Sun. Which rises where? Where the Light comes from: the Orient!

2/ or number of Purāņas. This cultural choice of 18 itself follows from 18's intrinsic properties. Thus, it is 1⁰×2¹x3². It puts 1 at a higher level than 8 just as a magic square has 1 central & 8 peripheral numbers. So, 18 is special & I celebrate this 18th anniversary.

Haven't heard that head-transplant Gaņeśa & helicopter pilot Hanumān mastered transplantation yet. Then again, wasn't Krṣņa as an embryo transplanted yet? Some Ācāryas are very squeamish about the Karma transfer allegedly involved. I don't mind it.

Seeing how some Tamils cling to the Kīļadi legacy, we sympathize, but do remind them that it's still younger than Sinauli, not to mention the RgVeda & Rakhigaŕhi. It's good that Tamils have some sites to be proud of, but it won't change India's history. madrascourier.com/insight/before…

Rather than the usual Hindu wailing in vague terms, w/ no documented specifics, this article deserves a compliment for delving into 1 case of history distortion & going into the details. When Activism Masquerades as Scholarship: The IITs Deserve Better swarajyamag.com/commentary/whe…

Hitler has the traits the Devil had, so he's as ubiquitous in polemical discourse today as curses were in religious times. Hindus are extra vulnerable to this mischievous guilt by association (including totally fact-free slander, as here) & do nothing to remedy it.

Note also how he exemplifies that Hinduism's worst slanderers are neither knaves or fools from the West (these only come in at a first remove, as running-dogs), but Indian Nehruvians. Indians keep on flattering themselves as targets of an outsider conspiracy. No, Nehru's parrots.