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**metropropuskruww** · 11-04-2009, 03:47 AM

Without relying on western sources like Wikipedia or any celebrated historians from outside the country, why shall we not believe the words of our own historians and other scholars? Don't we trust our own people or do we think that the premise, methodology and conclusion of them are all wrong?

If it is so, does it not show that we nurture some sort of prejudice against our own
countrymen, howsoever great they are?

Wiki is obviously not the best source. But it helps when an article provides the exact verses of the scripture, for a reader to look up on his / her own.

There are many Indian indologists as well as western ones. One need not choose which author to "trust". By doing so, we might become like the muslims to whom the words of Muhammad are final and must be defended at any cost, no matter how erroneous they might be to the 'others' (kafirs).

Its better to leave the author aside and simply deal with the subject matter. Each time one comes across new info, obviously the old pattern of thinking changes - and if that happens, it means one has allowed his mind to be open to change. Otherwise like an unopen parachute, the mind might simply have to fall to the ground with no hope of surviving. Without taking off the ground, the mind might just get bored or feel like still stagnant waters with no movement like a breeding place for mosquitoes.

11-04-2009, 03:47 AM	#34
metropropuskruww Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 389 Senior Member	Without relying on western sources like Wikipedia or any celebrated historians from outside the country, why shall we not believe the words of our own historians and other scholars? Don't we trust our own people or do we think that the premise, methodology and conclusion of them are all wrong? If it is so, does it not show that we nurture some sort of prejudice against our own countrymen, howsoever great they are? Wiki is obviously not the best source. But it helps when an article provides the exact verses of the scripture, for a reader to look up on his / her own. There are many Indian indologists as well as western ones. One need not choose which author to "trust". By doing so, we might become like the muslims to whom the words of Muhammad are final and must be defended at any cost, no matter how erroneous they might be to the 'others' (kafirs). Its better to leave the author aside and simply deal with the subject matter. Each time one comes across new info, obviously the old pattern of thinking changes - and if that happens, it means one has allowed his mind to be open to change. Otherwise like an unopen parachute, the mind might simply have to fall to the ground with no hope of surviving. Without taking off the ground, the mind might just get bored or feel like still stagnant waters with no movement like a breeding place for mosquitoes.
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