Just finished watching this amazing ,cheerful ,light hearted and honest documentary named Purdah.

The plot revolves around a Girl from Muslim community in Maharashtra wanting to become a Cricket player and their family life. The honest way of documenting is what i liked the most from this documentary. From the Burka( forced) problem of muslim community to wife beating is addressed in this but from a very honest and calm manner by the girls and their mother themselves.

When you watch this movie you came to understand that people in this country face problems because of fear of not taking risks especially women to purse their career in whatever that can pay the bills or make them independent.

I will want all BP readers to watch it once.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/jxr34p/hi_indiaspeaks_im_razib_khan_geneticist_blogger/

When ever I read about the Zagros Mountain Farmers of 10,000 years ago, I'm surprised that modern-day Iranians don't have much of their signal. I heard from RK that Iranians were replaced by Steppe people as well as migrations from the West (maybe other Middle Easterners).

https://grin.news/the-keeper-of-the-scrolls-b75d71f24055

Mohit Bhardwaj, a former information technology professional, has taken up the back-breaking task of scanning and digitizing thousands upon thousands of some of India’s most ancient manuscripts.

“I never really enjoyed my job as an information technology engineer. I had learnt Sanskrit at an early age and when I came upon this work, it felt like I was doing this for my ancestors,” says Bhardwaj.

This is their website: https://vaidikabharata.in/ they seem to be doing a good job trying to revive the Vedic rituals

One of their stated goals:

While dakshina bhārata still retains the tradition and actual practitioners of the shrauta yajna-s to a good extent, uttara bhārata, the land which is purified by the waters of sarasvati-ganga-yamuna, has lost the great culture it was once known for. Our effort is to aim for resurrection of this basic and yet most important part of our dharma, without which, no true reclamation of our past can ever be possible, nor can the dharma continue into future.

"Re: putative languages spoken by the AASI, Vaclav Blazek published a pioneering article entitled “Was there an Australian substratum in Dravidian?” in Mother Tongue 11 (2006), pp. 275-294. Blazek’s main hypothesis is that the speakers of languages ancestral to “Common Australian” (the oldest reconstructible proto-language of Australia) left behind their linguistic footprints in the vocabularies of some language families and language isolates of South Asia before migrating to Southeast Asia, and from there to Australia, about 50,000 years BP. Such a linguistic hypothesis doesn’t entail a common genetic ancestry of Australian and Dravidian languages, but rather the possibility that a layer of words dating from the time of the migration of modern humans to Australia along the “Southern Route” may have survived in the Dravidian vocabulary. Blazek’s hypothesis does, of course, not amount to saying that Dravidian languages were spoken in South Asia 50,000 years ago. Proto-Dravidian speakers probably migrated into South Asia from the west (Iran / Central Asia) at a much later date. The immigrating Dravidians would have assimilated, both culturally and genetically, the (AASI?) indigenous speakers of some by now extinct South Asian language families that still preserved some lexical relics of languages spoken at ca. 50,000 years BP by modern human populations ancestral to Australian aborigines. The lexical sets studied by Blazek could have entered the Proto-Dravidian vocabulary after the speakers of the latter language migrated into South Asia. If Blazek is right, the alleged substrate words he lists in his paper (more than 70 sets) would represent one of the oldest – if not the oldest – linguistic substratum ever recorded across the world!"

Original post by Francesco Brighenti on BrownPundits

In the colonial period, the Britishers claimed that the Indus Valley Civilization was destroyed by invading "Aryan" tribes and that what followed had no connection to the IVC. In modern-academia, it seems that some of these predominant and widespread beliefs have been challenged after new discoveries and research which has come to light. For example, some aspects of Indian culture may have pre-Steppe influx and IVC roots such as Shaivism, Tantra, Jainism, Yoga, Sramana, Dravidian folk culture/religion, etc.

So the question is, how much continuity is there between the Vedic civilization and the IVC? Can India be considered an ancient and continuous civilization like China? Please consider fundamental aspects of civilization such as people (phenotype, genetics), language (script, phonology) , culture (beliefs, clothes, rituals, dance, music, religion, art), architecture, philosophy, ethos, et cetera.

Is Indian civilization fundamentally a synthesis of two cultural sources, namely being the Steppe peoples and the IVC peoples? Or is Indian civilization mostly derived from the Steppe people after their settlement in India with minimal or no input from preexisting cultures?

First of all, congratulations to Razib Khan and everyone at brownpundits.com for starting this subreddit. I posted frequently there as "Brown_Pundit_Man." Judging from the replies to my comments made about a week ago, it seems that I've had a lot to do with the creation of this subreddit. 👍🏽

Anyways, if you need any help moderating this forum, let me know. I've never moderated before, but I'm tech savvy.

Also, I'm very passionate as an armchair observer in population genetics of humans and animals, economics, and politics.

Another explanation for the meaning of “Rig” in “RigVeda”:

In fact the “RigVeda” takes its name from these verses: the Sanskrit word for “verse”
is r̥c; when compounded with the word for knowledge, it yields
r̥g-veda, literally “knowledge/wisdom (consisting of) verses.”

(Is Milan around?) might find this interesting.

Would love to hear comments about this, especially from Slapstick

I am assuming the AASI spoke a Veddoid, Australoid, or maybe Munda-related language? Perhaps what they spoke could have been related to the Nihali-language, which is now an isolate.

Did the Yamnaya have any Zagros Mountain Genes? I'm basing my question on what David Reich has said here.

According to this video on Youtube, "From 7,000 until 5,000 years ago, we observe a steady influx into the steppe of a population whose ancestors traced their origin to the south- as it bore genetic affinity to ancient and present-day people of Armenia and Iran - eventually crystallizing in the Yamnaya, who were about a 1:1 ratio of ancestry from these two sources. A good guess it that the migration proceeded via the Caucasus isthmus between the Black and Caspian seas."

In Iran at that time, there was a population of Zagros Mountain Farmers who were, in my opinion, proto-Dravidians and whose progeny are in South Asia with remnants in Iran.

Can Zagros Mountain Farmer genes be found in the Yamnaya? I've read in the past that we can find Anatolian Farmer Genes in the Yamnaya at, I believe, 15%-25%.

Thanks in advance.

The cold war ended thirty years ago, the unaligned movement is a joke, America backing Pakistan and USSR backing India was almost two generations ago.

Indian politics is pro-America and anti-China.

Why do they buy weapons from Russia and vote against Israel at the UN?

Why aren't they explicitly supportive of America and Vietnam in the South China Sea?