Days - if not weeks - of research is so clearly seen. Thoroughly enjoyed this insightful episode on the very puzzling question of temple art. Look forward to more.
Actually historians do research and study for their whole lives instead of some engineer turned lawyer called "JSD" who automatically becomes historian after 2014
A must watch! I'm so glad that finally there is a series that puts deep academic research in history in front of the public, so that they might be freed from false notions.
I appreciate your efforts in giving back our identity as natives, let me call it the "Dravidians". You have explained history in respectable and more scientifically. Bests!
@The wire @Namit Arora kindly stop spreading propaganda on hinduism 🕉️ . U people are influence by far left extremist ideology that belive in destruction of local cultures and its history. U belive in faking the truth, "the reason of nudity on the outer parts of khajuraho temple is to tell devotees that when u enter inside temple all kinds of vasna should be kept outside the temple and ur mind should be free, inside temples u wont find any such sculptures".If u cant promote good value then atleast dont harm it 🙏
Just amazing. Seeing this opens up the mind like an umbrella. I just hope more and more Indians learn about the true history and drop their narrow-minded approach towards religion and life.
Wahh... Maja aagaya. History presented as it should be without any biases, the quality of the Pearl and depth of the seas that it took to get it out is just awesome. Need more of such researches. Proud to be a history student
Thanks for the amazing series. Kudos to Namit Arora,Natasha Badhwar and team for making it so so interesting that despite my history background I am totally hooked. My small grouse is the I wish was a bit longer but that's probably only me.!
It is crazy to think Brahminism won against Buddhism and Tantric religion, but now we also know where the RSS gets ideas for social engineering. If only Buddhism or Tantric religion existed today, India would have been a different country.
You can't blame everything on Islam? Why was Deepa Mehta not allowed to shoot her movie " Water " in North India? Why the Pandyas and the upper castes opposed the shooting and release of her movie? You need to do introspection. You can't simply blame the history. By the way the hindu kings prior Islamic invasion were also of the same kind barring a few exceptions who were good.
I humbly disagree. All the depictions of the sculpture are on hindu temples and not on mosques. There would not a single temple standing let alone Khajuraho sculptures on Indian soil if muslims were extremely puritan and were to blame for anything and everything. I am not considering today's polarized intolerant people who are fed by WhatsApp university and distorted history. Get real and read real history written by true historians and not government appointed pseudo historians. I
Very nice and thank you. It was question which answer I was seeking for almost 10 years, and now one was able to give me a proper satisfactory answer. Thanks a lot.
Thanks to The Wire and Mr Namit Arora for this refreshingly simple, yet well researched look on the sub-continent's history. Indian history is marred by Brahminical partisanship, colonial prudishness, colonial hangover of even modern historians and the revisionists of the Hinduthva brigade. Although many notable works by historians like AL Basam , Romila Thapar, Wendy Doniger and others have tried to set Indian history in the right light; they are still less read in today's preference to visual information and digested opinions through the social media. This web series on RUclips has made Indian history accessible, it is now upto the algorithm to show it on the suggestion lists for the wider public! Alas! the algorithm is too good to bring this to the suggestion list of say a revisionist! We may be preaching to the choir here :) But none the less, it is great to be among the ones who liked and commented on this video/series.
@The wire @Namit Arora kindly stop spreading propaganda on hinduism 🕉️ . U people are influence by far left extremist ideology that belive in destruction of local cultures and its history. U belive in faking the truth, "the reason of nudity on the outer parts of khajuraho temple is to tell devotees that when u enter inside temple all kinds of vasna should be kept outside the temple and ur mind should be free, inside temples u wont find any such sculptures".If u cant promote good value then atleast dont harm it 🙏
@The wire @Namit Arora kindly stop spreading propaganda on hinduism 🕉️ . U people are influence by far left extremist ideology that belive in destruction of local cultures and its history. U belive in faking the truth, "the reason of nudity on the outer parts of khajuraho temple is to tell devotees that when u enter inside temple all kinds of vasna should be kept outside the temple and ur mind should be free, inside temples u wont find any such sculptures".If u cant promote good value then atleast dont harm it 🙏
You stated and I quote "the religious culture back then was very different from ours", a person of understanding and inquiring mind can understand the veracity behind this statement. However, the 'cultural protectors' of our land are persistent in claiming that their culture is 5000yrs old and it is same as it was in the time immemorial. What can be done to educate these ignoramus people? I hope some of them watch this series and unlearn "their learnings".
Ancient India seems to have been more liberal than any ancient civilization or even any of the modern day cultures. Women and female Goddesses truly had a privileged place in social life. Orthodox Brahminism seems to be the true evil that had befallen India in ancient and medieval times as well as modern day India. I always thought that our country would have been a more developed country if Brahminism and patriarchy never happened to us. But I am wrong, our country was a highly developed society which fell prey to Brahminism and patriarchy and lost its glory many centuries ago. Thank you for this wonderful series, as always a great and enlightening episode.
This is simply amazing! Lots of respect to you @namitarora! Please spread this series all over the world.. and I have been a bit baffled since start of the series to realise that contemporary Tamilnadu or Tamils are almost 100% ignored..
Out of the first seven episodes released so far, parts of the 4th and the 7th cover Tamil country. Not enough, yes, but these are short episodes. I imagine, choices have to be made that won't please everyone. The northeast has even more reason to complain.
Thank you for such a wonderful piece,the role of Tantrism its blend and fallout with Brahminism answers so many questions, especially how just like human Religion and beliefs have been evolving and with time changing. This one is just too 👍 good
A very beautifully written narration with delicate intricacies, nuances! By using more simpler words, a reach is made to the general crowd too! The art and craft from the period ranging from 3rd BCE to 1400th century...long journey well handled! Now I could get the clearer picture of how our society moved from a young male sitting on a lakeside tree, playing bansoori and mingling with gopikas to a group of men writing in smritis about how women should be treated! Bad Indian days!!
Really enjoying this series Namit! Enlightening, informative and presented in an engaging and entertaining manner. Like it so much that I’ve ordered your book to get more in-depth details on the subjects you have covered. Hope more people in our country see this - much needed in the current political climate.
Beautiful❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Proud to be an Indian. It is time to go back to that era- prebrahmanical era. My ancestors used to share that brahmins destroyed our rich Indian heritage. Your research has backed up their view. Thank you so much Sir for your excellent narration. Huge shout out to the wire for bringing this series❤❤❤❤
Insightful as always. Thanks for providing a lead to the ‘Prabodhya’. I found it on the free Internet Archive by searching: “Name” pdf and will devour this Saturday with great joy. Thanks again from Trinidad West Indies.😊
oh wow ~ another stunning episode! it took me an hour to watch, as I kept pausing to take in and reflect upon so much rich visual, intellectual, and conceptual content! thank you for your incredible work, and for sharing it with us in such an accessible way! I imagine that the increase in explicit sexual imagery of temple walls was similar to the same progressively bold/ audacious 'boundary pushing' that occurs in Hollywood, with each movie that breaks a new boundary of explicit depiction gaining more attention, and fame. what strikes me most in the erotic images shown is how consensual they all are. even when the woman's head is (coyly?) turned away, her body is turning toward her partner. there are also SO many beautiful images - both in art and sculpture, where the lovers eyes are locked in a deep and loving gaze. such images convey mutual desire, mutual attraction and mutual enjoyment, which has such a positive impact on viewers, especially as a tool of sexual education! if the goddesses and gods are making love and experiencing supreme sexual delights, why wouldn't the humans be also, and why wouldn't it be totally okay for them to do so? this body-positive/ sex-positive aspect of 'hinduism' is what has always attracted me the most, as I grew up in the very sexually repressive, patriarchal monotheistic religion. so thank you so much for all the rigorous intellectual work and inspired creativity that has gone into the making of these episodes, each is a treasure that I get excited to watch! how blessed I feel to be able to learn through this medium, at this time in our history, and to be able to celebrate with others gathered here all that is beautiful, life-affirming, Goddess-loving, and woman-honouring, in our past and collective (her)stories; thank you!
Little disappointed that not enough light has been shed on the Sangam age, which is the foundation on which Keezhadi excavations proving the extension of the IVC to the Vaigai and Porunai river settlements commencing in the 3rd BCE. Also no mention of the 1st archaeological excavations that was conducted in Adichanalloor?
25k views only and cheap dance videos get millions. What Wire did is brilliant job but i request it should not go wasted kindly release it on some other platforms too with different languages its very important.
Brahminical and Muslim Order not only destroyed the thinking but also destroyed teaching hub such as nalanda University. Yet they came with another relegion Dean-e -elahi.
This should be made as a Netflix series. The world needs to know❤
This video is a small but significant step towards unravelling centuries of ignorance about our history. Great job!
Days - if not weeks - of research is so clearly seen. Thoroughly enjoyed this insightful episode on the very puzzling question of temple art. Look forward to more.
Actually historians do research and study for their whole lives instead of some engineer turned lawyer called "JSD" who automatically becomes historian after 2014
@@grapeshotthaha
A must watch!
I'm so glad that finally there is a series that puts deep academic research in history in front of the public, so that they might be freed from false notions.
All the gaps in the history are getting filled. I am so glad I found this series! Absolutely informative
Simply brilliant! Can't get enough of these wonderful episodes!
30 minutes feels like 5 minutes. The Best of wire. Super Super
Rise of brahminism contributed to conservatism, patriarchy, caste consolidation.
This is one of the best series i have watched till now. With so much of knowledge and research.
I appreciate your efforts in giving back our identity as natives, let me call it the "Dravidians". You have explained history in respectable and more scientifically. Bests!
Truly, i have no words to appreciate your description at Tantraism !👍👍👍👍👍
@The wire @Namit Arora kindly stop spreading propaganda on hinduism 🕉️ . U people are influence by far left extremist ideology that belive in destruction of local cultures and its history. U belive in faking the truth, "the reason of nudity on the outer parts of khajuraho temple is to tell devotees that when u enter inside temple all kinds of vasna should be kept outside the temple and ur mind should be free, inside temples u wont find any such sculptures".If u cant promote good value then atleast dont harm it 🙏
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@@Mukundbsingh mene jo pool khol diya uss reply ko kyu delete kr diya 😁 dar ke mare wire walo
Just amazing. Seeing this opens up the mind like an umbrella. I just hope more and more Indians learn about the true history and drop their narrow-minded approach towards religion and life.
Amazing.... History as it was..... Now consumed by our intorence.
Came with Islam.
Wahh... Maja aagaya. History presented as it should be without any biases, the quality of the Pearl and depth of the seas that it took to get it out is just awesome. Need more of such researches. Proud to be a history student
Thanks for the amazing series. Kudos to Namit Arora,Natasha Badhwar and team for making it so so interesting that despite my history background I am totally hooked. My small grouse is the I wish was a bit longer but that's probably only me.!
This is the best series I have watched ever about Indian history - and one of the reasons for me to subscribe to The Wire. Just sensational stuff.
It is crazy to think Brahminism won against Buddhism and Tantric religion, but now we also know where the RSS gets ideas for social engineering. If only Buddhism or Tantric religion existed today, India would have been a different country.
@@nvaravind5394 It still exists in pockets, for sure. We can rediscover such ideas again if we begin to deconstruct hierarchies!
India was so broad minded in those times.
We have become very narrow minded since L.K.Advani's Rath yatra.
Since Islamic invasion.
Why are there moral police in all BJP ruled states?
You can't blame everything on Islam?
Why was Deepa Mehta not allowed to shoot her movie
" Water " in North India?
Why the Pandyas and the upper castes opposed the shooting and release of her movie?
You need to do introspection.
You can't simply blame the history.
By the way the hindu kings prior Islamic invasion were also of the same kind barring a few exceptions who were good.
@@arunstephan302 In religious politics there is also competition of morality and purity... India without. Muslims will be most open society.
I humbly disagree.
All the depictions of the sculpture are on hindu temples and not on mosques. There would not a single temple standing let alone Khajuraho sculptures on Indian soil if muslims were extremely puritan and were to blame for anything and everything.
I am not considering today's polarized intolerant people who are fed by WhatsApp university and distorted history.
Get real and read real history written by true historians and not government appointed pseudo historians.
I
Tantrism was unknown to me untill this awesome video
Tamils always have known this ...
It's a really needed endeavour in today's India. Thanks to the team, thank you so much .
Yet another fantastic, episode. Seriously, hard to believe when you see where it is all headed today.
Very nice and thank you.
It was question which answer I was seeking for almost 10 years, and now one was able to give me a proper satisfactory answer.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much wire.
Good 👍
Thanks to The Wire and Mr Namit Arora for this refreshingly simple, yet well researched look on the sub-continent's history.
Indian history is marred by Brahminical partisanship, colonial prudishness, colonial hangover of even modern historians and the revisionists of the Hinduthva brigade.
Although many notable works by historians like AL Basam , Romila Thapar, Wendy Doniger and others have tried to set Indian history in the right light; they are still less read in today's preference to visual information and digested opinions through the social media.
This web series on RUclips has made Indian history accessible, it is now upto the algorithm to show it on the suggestion lists for the wider public!
Alas! the algorithm is too good to bring this to the suggestion list of say a revisionist! We may be preaching to the choir here :)
But none the less, it is great to be among the ones who liked and commented on this video/series.
I truly loved this episode Namita Arora. Eagerly waiting for the next.
Wonderful, thought provoking sessions
@The wire @Namit Arora kindly stop spreading propaganda on hinduism 🕉️ . U people are influence by far left extremist ideology that belive in destruction of local cultures and its history. U belive in faking the truth, "the reason of nudity on the outer parts of khajuraho temple is to tell devotees that when u enter inside temple all kinds of vasna should be kept outside the temple and ur mind should be free, inside temples u wont find any such sculptures".If u cant promote good value then atleast dont harm it 🙏
Very scholarly!
this is so fascinating. history in his voice seems like a magic match lol,
Thank you it piece of history
Andhbhakts ko saap soongh geya 😂😂😂😂
@The wire @Namit Arora kindly stop spreading propaganda on hinduism 🕉️ . U people are influence by far left extremist ideology that belive in destruction of local cultures and its history. U belive in faking the truth, "the reason of nudity on the outer parts of khajuraho temple is to tell devotees that when u enter inside temple all kinds of vasna should be kept outside the temple and ur mind should be free, inside temples u wont find any such sculptures".If u cant promote good value then atleast dont harm it 🙏
Andh namazi
"Andh namazi" word seems so blessed and endearing 😂. Sorry for not getting offended.
@@epiphanicsoul9119 mooh khulla rakhna modiji tumhare mooh mein aake hagenge. 🤣🤣🤣
NAMIT sir thanks for presenting this wonderful article. Waiting for the next lectures. Amazing presentation.
Simply brilliant.. insightful and thought provoking..
You stated and I quote "the religious culture back then was very different from ours", a person of understanding and inquiring mind can understand the veracity behind this statement. However, the 'cultural protectors' of our land are persistent in claiming that their culture is 5000yrs old and it is same as it was in the time immemorial. What can be done to educate these ignoramus people? I hope some of them watch this series and unlearn "their learnings".
Ancient India seems to have been more liberal than any ancient civilization or even any of the modern day cultures. Women and female Goddesses truly had a privileged place in social life. Orthodox Brahminism seems to be the true evil that had befallen India in ancient and medieval times as well as modern day India. I always thought that our country would have been a more developed country if Brahminism and patriarchy never happened to us. But I am wrong, our country was a highly developed society which fell prey to Brahminism and patriarchy and lost its glory many centuries ago. Thank you for this wonderful series, as always a great and enlightening episode.
The invasions both Islamic & European destroyed this great civilization
This is simply amazing! Lots of respect to you @namitarora! Please spread this series all over the world.. and I have been a bit baffled since start of the series to realise that contemporary Tamilnadu or Tamils are almost 100% ignored..
Out of the first seven episodes released so far, parts of the 4th and the 7th cover Tamil country. Not enough, yes, but these are short episodes. I imagine, choices have to be made that won't please everyone. The northeast has even more reason to complain.
Thank you for such a wonderful piece,the role of Tantrism its blend and fallout with Brahminism answers so many questions, especially how just like human Religion and beliefs have been evolving and with time changing. This one is just too 👍 good
Eagerly waiting for the next episode.
Amazing video...Thanks to The Wire and Namit arora ❤❤
Great presentation. Keep it up.
Thanks for the most awaiting series.❤
A very beautifully written narration with delicate intricacies, nuances! By using more simpler words, a reach is made to the general crowd too! The art and craft from the period ranging from 3rd BCE to 1400th century...long journey well handled! Now I could get the clearer picture of how our society moved from a young male sitting on a lakeside tree, playing bansoori and mingling with gopikas to a group of men writing in smritis about how women should be treated! Bad Indian days!!
Amazing stories of our past history, thanks for the project and showing our grand liberalism.
Totally unbiased
Really enjoying this series Namit! Enlightening, informative and presented in an engaging and entertaining manner. Like it so much that I’ve ordered your book to get more in-depth details on the subjects you have covered. Hope more people in our country see this - much needed in the current political climate.
Thanks Mr. Arora. I would like to read your book.
अगर इसका हिंदी अनुवाद सबटाइटल में दिखाया जाय या इसको हिंदी में डब करके दिखाया जाय तो बहुत ज़्यादा लोगों को प्राचीन भारत की जानकारी मिलेगी
Very insightful, eye opening!
WONDERFUL.
GREAT VISUAL WORK!!
Thank you for some awesome information 🙏
Hinduism- soup of multiple beliefs
Thank you very much. Your videos are both enlightening and engrossing to watch. 🙏
Thank you so much for your work on Indian History, its so amazing 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Excellent research and presentation. Keep it up.
Beautiful series ….
Hard work of research. Thank you so much for your hard work doing a series on History of India.
I love this series of story telling.
Superb
Thanks
Thanks
So good. Love ur presentation. Grateful to the wire for this endeavour
Superb episode. Keep them coming.
Thanks so much! What a brilliant series!
Great research and retelling of Indian history.
Incredible
Beautiful❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Proud to be an Indian. It is time to go back to that era- prebrahmanical era.
My ancestors used to share that brahmins destroyed our rich Indian heritage. Your research has backed up their view. Thank you so much Sir for your excellent narration.
Huge shout out to the wire for bringing this series❤❤❤❤
Kudos to this episode ..👍👍👍
ThankyouSir
superb narration and very attractive visuals to go with it. Please keep it up
Well done sir ji. For the valuable information /knowledge sharing
Brilliant! Looking forward to more!
thanks for putting history in perspective
Insightful as always. Thanks for providing a lead to the ‘Prabodhya’. I found it on the free Internet Archive by searching: “Name” pdf and will devour this Saturday with great joy. Thanks again from Trinidad West Indies.😊
Amazing👍😍
Thought provoking.. Thanks.
I adore this series! Bravo❤
oh wow ~ another stunning episode! it took me an hour to watch, as I kept pausing to take in and reflect upon so much rich visual, intellectual, and conceptual content! thank you for your incredible work, and for sharing it with us in such an accessible way!
I imagine that the increase in explicit sexual imagery of temple walls was similar to the same progressively bold/ audacious 'boundary pushing' that occurs in Hollywood, with each movie that breaks a new boundary of explicit depiction gaining more attention, and fame.
what strikes me most in the erotic images shown is how consensual they all are. even when the woman's head is (coyly?) turned away, her body is turning toward her partner. there are also SO many beautiful images - both in art and sculpture, where the lovers eyes are locked in a deep and loving gaze. such images convey mutual desire, mutual attraction and mutual enjoyment, which has such a positive impact on viewers, especially as a tool of sexual education!
if the goddesses and gods are making love and experiencing supreme sexual delights, why wouldn't the humans be also, and why wouldn't it be totally okay for them to do so? this body-positive/ sex-positive aspect of 'hinduism' is what has always attracted me the most, as I grew up in the very sexually repressive, patriarchal monotheistic religion.
so thank you so much for all the rigorous intellectual work and inspired creativity that has gone into the making of these episodes, each is a treasure that I get excited to watch! how blessed I feel to be able to learn through this medium, at this time in our history, and to be able to celebrate with others gathered here all that is beautiful, life-affirming, Goddess-loving, and woman-honouring, in our past and collective (her)stories; thank you!
Such an amazing series. Thanks for putting up.
Excellent again
Excellent episode
Very insightful!
Upload everyday if possible ❤
Beautiful
Very nicely explained the fall of great culture by so called mythical Brahmins
Great series
Wow!
I find it a new sub-dimension to look back on our ancestors and assess my position at present....
Great work!...I loved it ❤....
Too good. ✨✨✨✨✨
Research and explanation is good and mind blowing. Can you also explore about Dravidian civilisation
Excellent! Enlightening!
Thanks for the enligtenment though there are some aspects difficult to accept.
👏👏👏 what a presentation
Little disappointed that not enough light has been shed on the Sangam age, which is the foundation on which Keezhadi excavations proving the extension of the IVC to the Vaigai and Porunai river settlements commencing in the 3rd BCE. Also no mention of the 1st archaeological excavations that was conducted in Adichanalloor?
Brahmanism destroyed our ancient Indian culture! The root cause of all the problems!
I was waiting for the episode ❤
25k views only and cheap dance videos get millions.
What Wire did is brilliant job but i request it should not go wasted kindly release it on some other platforms too with different languages its very important.
Brahminical and Muslim Order not only destroyed the thinking but also destroyed teaching hub such as nalanda University. Yet they came with another relegion Dean-e -elahi.
Brahman were priest in these temples.
We need to study our history ❤
Well done sir ❤❤❤
Wow... Sir.. enlightened...
brilliant....
Great hob Sir. Thank you.
Adi shankara ancestor from north India? 🤔 Isn't he was from kaladi, Kerala ?