Koenraad Elst

"The status quaestionis is still, more than ever, that the Vedic corpus provides no reference to an immigration of the so-called Vedic Aryans from Central Asia. This need not be taken as sufficient pro…"

"I also intend to restore objectivity. This is an urgent necessity in view of two challenges. This means in practice that once you have identified an author as representative of the wrong interest grou…"

"Still, sum total, linguistics has so far only provided a malleable type of evidence, a probability but not the final word. At any rate, the findings of Historical and Comparative Linguistics turn out …"

"The next meeting was scheduled for the next day, January 25. But there, the BMAC scholars simply did not show up. The unambiguous result of the debate was this: the BMAC scholars have run away from th…"

"The VHP-employed team presented the already known documentary and archaeological evidence and dug up quite a few new documents confirming the temple demolition . The BMAC-employed team quit the discus…"

"To whom it may concern: the present writer, at any rate, is neither a Hindu nor a nationalist."

"It must also be admitted that other Indian leaders have accepted the idea of an Aryan invasion without being any the less patriotic for it. Congress leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Hindu Mahasabha ideo…"

"These days, reporting on the communal in situation in India consists in highlighting the splinter in the Hindu eye and concealing the beam in the Muslim eye. At the time of the 1991 Lok Sabha election…"