Liberating Indian Mind

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“Have you read my book published as far back as 1973 (Arya Dravid Bhashon ki Moolbhoot Ekata, Lipi, New Delhi-2)?”

He did not answer. His eyes glistened in curiosity.

“I was not understood when I told, there is nothing Aryan radically different from Dravidian. There are groups of languages partly different from others but sharing enough in common, but differing in details among themselves.”

“You do not except Dravidian as a distinct family from the Aryan one?”

“Neither there are language families, nor linguistic prototypes generating the languages grouped together. There were numerous dialects independent from each other which in the process of building larger social formations intermingled to reshape the most acceptable one to become their common language. This was my evident claim, defying all the authorities on Historical and comparative linguists, but it was ignored despite its proven authenticity, and now the geneticists are conforming me, oblivious of this consonance although they are. Look at this sentence underlined by me.” I placed the copy of OUTLOOK before him.
‘the ‘Ancestral South Indian’, is better read as everyone’s ancestor in South Asia—whether Punjabi, Bengali or ‘Madrasi’.’
“Do you know what does it mean to me?” I asked him without giving him any respite.”

He kept musing.

“It is the greatest award of my life…” I declared boastfully.

He checked his laughter with some effort.

I ignored him, “because it has dwarfed all the linguists right from Jones to Krishnamury, who made big noise celebrating their ‘achievements’ one after the other, and has raised my stature high enough to overshadow them all in one go.”

“Should I leave?” He was visibly perturbed.

It was my turn to laugh him out.Liberating Indian Mind