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This is Audrey's pinned tweet. It is hilariously ironic that Audrey quotes Nilakantha Dikshita’s Kalividambanam (Verse 1). She clearly missed the joke. Nilakantha was satirizing fake scholars who do not know their subjects. When he wrote 'Na boddhavyam, na sravyam... jhatiti prativaktavyam,' he was mocking charlatans who refuse to understand the subject, refuse to listen to opposing evidence & just scream immediate replies to look smart. ​If she had actually read the very next verse in Nilakantha’s text (Verse 2), she would have realized she was walking into a trap. Nilakantha goes on to list the 5 ways these fake scholars try to win an argument when they lack substance: असंभ्रमो विलज्जत्वम् अवज्ञा प्रतिवादिनि l हासो राज्ञः स्तवश्चेति पञ्चैते जयहेतवः ll Remaining unbothered, sheer shamelessness, showing utter contempt for the opponent, mocking them & praising the ruling powers (the King)... these 5 are their keys to victory. This is the exact operational playbook of modern ideological historians when cornered by hard evidence. Let me further quote the verse 3 also to get the full context: अश‍िक्ष‍ितेषु वक्तव्यं सभ्येषु महता कलिना l श‍िक्ष‍ितेषु तु वक्तव्यं मध्यस्थोऽयं विमत्सरः ll If the judge is uneducated, just shout loudly to win. If the judge is smart, immediately accuse him of being biased! Whenever an Indian scholar/community group exposes a factual error in her work using hard data, the response is rarely a factual counter-argument. Instead, she immediately claims she is being harassed/attacked by nationalists. She & others use institutional victimhood as a shield to completely avoid answering legitimate, evidence-based academic critiques.

Seriously !! A water buffalo, Elephant, rhinoceroses and a TIGER from proto Elamite region. At the same time. If a seal shows Indian megafauna, belongs to the riverine and floodplain ecosystems of the Indian subcontinent presenting Indian ecological logic. And parallels the Pashupati motif of the Indus civilization, then forcing it into some other origin says more about bias than ancient reality.

This academic historian tells us that Indian history is “well worth getting it right.” But for us to “get it right,” we need to receive her wisdom because we lowly Hindus do not have access to our own itihasa and tradition. Who gave her this agency? Which divine or legal authority does she possess? A PhD in BS?

Seriously !! A water buffalo, Elephant, rhinoceroses and a TIGER from proto Elamite region. At the same time. If a seal shows Indian megafauna, belongs to the riverine and floodplain ecosystems of the Indian subcontinent presenting Indian ecological logic. And parallels the Pashupati motif of the Indus civilization, then forcing it into some other origin says more about bias than ancient reality.