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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and is looking to buy land of approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas If you have land to sell, please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or phone +91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Venantius J Pinto: Hi Vinay,If this is true than I am with you. Please look further into this. I often wonder as to who really writes these books. Do the advisers write the books,do they have a say in the final draft, etc. etc. Besides that, people likeThapar, no matter what are pretty together, as as any historian have biases. Response: Ven, Romila Thapar is a reputed and noted historian with a long track record. Her work has been peer reviewed and critiqued nationally as well as internationally. History as everyone knows is not an exact science or mathematics. If any other historian has an alternative viewpoint, all he needs to do is conduct research and present his version supported by data and documentation and submit it to peer review nationally and internationally. This, however, the hindutva brigade is unable to do. For it means hard work and being subject to critical scrutiny. Hence they resort to labeling and trying to destroy the credibility of the author. In fact, the hindutva brigade has been in the forefront of re-writing (inventing) history to fit into their ideology and perspective. You may refer to the following articles. In Gujarat, social studies books are literally injecting venom into the minds on innocent children. The infamous VCD in Goa by the then BJP government was yet another attempt to inject poison in the minds of children and create communal disharmony. http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=483 http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?214547 http://www.thehindu.com/2004/06/23/stories/2004062301721000.htm http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/14/stories/2007021415630400.htm http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1523/15230140.htm http://www.sacw.net/HateEducation/MridulaAditya122001.html http://www.sacw.net/HateEducation/index.html I would ask Vinay to name any hindutva oriented 'historian' who has done real research, published papers and been critically reviewed by peers internationally. Regards, Marshall