Greedy Dog
The Story of India is a documentary series created by the BBC that explores the 10 000-year history, diversity and legacy of India. For over two millennia, India has been at the centre of world history. It comprises of one of the richest culture of the world. This documentary helped me in exploring the incredible richness and diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes.
This piece of art helps me in understanding the origin of Indian civilization. The first question in everyone’s mind that arouses is how the first human came to be. The oldest myth about the first human is that it came from the golden egg laid by the king of gods in the churning of the cosmic ocean. Modern science, of course doesn’t believe in myths, and suggest that our ancestors first walked out of Africa 80,000 years ago down to south india through Arabian sea. They stayed there because of the fact that the land is very much fertile. So here they stayed and became the first Indians. All non Africans can trace their descent from here and rest of the world is populated from here.
One can trace their footprints, if we go in the rainforests. Here a clan of Brahmins lives, who are priests and ritual specialists, who alone can perform the religious rituals, which are the sounds from the beginning of the time. These incantations and mantras have been passed down orally from father to son. This is called oral tradition. One can’t write these patterns in books. Even now a day this tradition is still as alive as it was before. Some of these mantras are in no known language. These early sounds follow rules and patterns that have no meaning; their analogue comes from the song of bird.
This documentary helps in understanding that it is not only sounds and rituals that have been passed down but also the genes. A village in Tamil Nadu, everyone still bears the genetic imprint of those first Indians.indian gene pool has remained largely constant, its one of the unchanging roots of india. It is
This piece of art helps me in understanding the origin of Indian civilization. The first question in everyone’s mind that arouses is how the first human came to be. The oldest myth about the first human is that it came from the golden egg laid by the king of gods in the churning of the cosmic ocean. Modern science, of course doesn’t believe in myths, and suggest that our ancestors first walked out of Africa 80,000 years ago down to south india through Arabian sea. They stayed there because of the fact that the land is very much fertile. So here they stayed and became the first Indians. All non Africans can trace their descent from here and rest of the world is populated from here.
One can trace their footprints, if we go in the rainforests. Here a clan of Brahmins lives, who are priests and ritual specialists, who alone can perform the religious rituals, which are the sounds from the beginning of the time. These incantations and mantras have been passed down orally from father to son. This is called oral tradition. One can’t write these patterns in books. Even now a day this tradition is still as alive as it was before. Some of these mantras are in no known language. These early sounds follow rules and patterns that have no meaning; their analogue comes from the song of bird.
This documentary helps in understanding that it is not only sounds and rituals that have been passed down but also the genes. A village in Tamil Nadu, everyone still bears the genetic imprint of those first Indians.indian gene pool has remained largely constant, its one of the unchanging roots of india. It is