It must be stated again that the common Indian people have understood the fallacy of the alien narrative. A vast majority now believes that the Indians were misled conspiratorial to disbelieve their own history. This is evident in the current social discourse now in motion all over India. By any standard, this is a great development.

 

“India is an ancient civilisation, but it (this awareness) has been removed from the conscience of our country ...”

 - Dr. Raj Vedam,

founder-member of think-tank

Indian History Awareness Research, USA.

 

THIS incisive and truthful observation comes from an authentic researcher who works at the confluence of multiple sciences in a merciless pursuit of truth. And it endorses countless similar observations by many, many scholars not just of Indian origin but also by others. This observation highlights the importance of the ‘Bharat’ narrative like nothing else does. It also defines the purpose of the ‘Bharat’ narrative as a pursuit of re-establishing the sanctity and sanity of erasing the wrong narrative and re-telling the story of India’s real story -- of its ancient civilisation, of its sciences that are proving more than accurate even today, of its ancient literature whose value and virtue are still very relevant to expansion of excellence-quotient even in modern times, of its arts and crafts whose equal or parallel is yet to be found even by modern technology.

 

Even though we have heard or read or known about the reality of our civilisation being undoubtedly ancient, we feel disturbed in a real sense when somebody points out that we have been made to forget the truth by some crafty elements that conspired to obscure the identity of India in our minds. So negatively have we been influenced by a fake narrative imposed on us by multiple forces that we, as a society, tend to disbelieve that we belong to an ancient civilisation that refused to be doused and drowned by vagaries of time. Unfortunately, we bought the fake narrative because, like the imposters to defiled the truth, we too disbelieved the “enormous timeline” of India’s long history spanning thousands of years.

 

“Enormous timeline” are the words Dr. Raj Vedam uses frequently in his masterly addresses and writings. He insists that foreigners could not believe that any civilisation could be so ancient that it defied their comprehension of time. He talks of five forces that distorted the reality of India’s ancient history: “The colonial forces, the Euro-centric forces, vested interests, liberal academia bias, and the Marxists”. These forces, through different times, bombarded the larger Indian society with a narrative that sought to disprove the ancientness of the great Indian civilisation.

 

As a result, says Dr. Raj Vedam, “Most of us are disconnected with our ancestry. Indian Astronomy is not taken into account when viewing our history. There is a lot of historical events recorded as per astronomical data in our ancient texts such as Vedas or Mahabharat”, but the Indians also follow the alien thought and disbelieve the “enormous timeline” of India’s history. He also adds, in effect, that present Indian history begins with Indus civilisation dated 4,000 years ago, because according to colonial writers, nothing could be older than 4,000 years. He also observes that this timeline is related to the mythical story of Noah’s Flood (whose correctness has been doubted by many scientists, by the way).

 

These scientific observations make it necessary for us to start understanding the truth of India’s history in the correct detail and perspective and telling it to ourselves as part of what is the ‘Bharat’ narrative.

 

The narrowness of the colonial narrative that India’s history is as old as the Indus civilisation can be debunked in no time. For, if the Indus civilisation was an advanced entity, then it must have evolved over hundreds or may be thousands of years. That means, India’s history goes that much back in time, breaking the barrier of 4,000 years that some western intellectuals put in place -- of course, as part of an evil conspiracy against India and its ancient story.

 

But it must be stated again and again that the common Indian people have understood the fallacy of the alien narrative. A vast majority now believes that the Indians were misled conspiratorially to disbelieve their own history. This is evident in the current social discourse now in motion all over India. By any standard, this is a great development.

 

Again, it must be stressed that the ‘Bharat’ narrative is not, in the least, a political ideology. It is a nationalistic thought that is so importantly needed to promote the idea of ‘New India’ or the ‘Indian Dream’, as many thinkers put it so appropriately. The ‘Bharat’ narrative means an effort to start brining about appropriate changes in our collective life so that we discard the alien imposition of fakeness on our thought and subsequent action. Let us discard the idea that ours is only a massive consumer market in which the world will sell its merchandise and we will buy all the stuff. Let us tell ourselves that it is no good to call ourselves only a big market. For, originally, our ancient civilisation taught us entrepreneurship, adventure, leadership of thought and action.

 

It is also time to tell ourselves that all the old theories about history -- like the Aryan invasion or migration theory -- have been debunked successfully by scientists from all over the world. So, consequentially, it is also time to start preparing a new script for ‘New India’ -- based on our own knowledge, our own history, our own heroes, our own emotions, instincts and intuitions, and finally our own values and virtue.

 

The ‘Bharat’ narrative also has an altogether timeless message -- of protecting and preserving the Earth’s ecology by organising life on natural lines. This is in perfect tune with the recommendations by about 15,000 scientists the world over in favour of natural living in which senseless human greed has little space and place -- based on the Upanishadic ideal: Tyena Tyaktena Bhunjitha!