This is a path-breaking work as significant as the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs by Champollion. For nearly130 years, the Indus script has remained a challenging enigma to scholars of languages, writing systems and civilization studies. The script was invented and used over an extensive area of what is called the Indus or Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization. Over 2000 or 80% of archaeological sites are found on the Sarasvati River basin, a river adored in a very old human document called the Rigveda and which dried up due to tectonic and resulting river migration causes. In 1822, history was...

Rastram, supranation, is about a golden page in the history of human civilizations. It is an opportunity to realize almost 2 millennia of dharam-dhamma values enshrined in the hearts of over 2 billion people along the nations of the Indian Ocean Rim. This is a compilation of insights, analyses and excerpts from works of by many savants and scholars about Hindu history. Rastram is a federation of peoples' republics - a supranational covenant as the true foundation of an organized Indian Ocean Community (IOC) -- a counterpoise to European Community. This IOC should remain open to all nations of...

The book links the invention of writing to the inventions of bronze-age technologies. Indus script is claimed to be one of the earliest writing systems of the world dated to c. 3500 BCE. The book claims that Indian language union (sprachbund or Indian linguistic area) dates back to the period when Indus script was used. About 1000 lexemes of Meluhha (mleccha) have been identified and explained in the context of ciphertext of Indian hieroglyphs. These substratum glosses are the foundation for further studies in the evolution of languages and linguistic features absorbed from one another, in...

State has become selfish and insolent. Excessive corporate greed and excessive state power have to be eradicated. Peoples' power has to be restored. First, cry out in outrage for dharma. Pass on the heritage of resistance against adharma. Seize power non-violently for dharma. Create a dharma rastram for the welfare of all and unity with the divine.

Invention of writing, ca. 3500 BCE complemented the inventions of the bronze-age in India. A writing system which functioned for trade from Meluhha region, called Indus script, contains many artistic representations which continued as an art tradition in historic periods, evidenced on devices used on punch-marked coins. The determination of the function and meanings of the glyphs used in the script is made possible by identifying the glyphs as hieroglyphs composed of all pictorial motifs -- over 100 -- and signs -- over 400 - and read rebus in mleccha v cas (as distinct from arya v cas - both...

As a counterpoise to European Community, the Indian Ocean Community can bring new developmental opportunities for over a third of humanity and contribute to setting up an equitable and just global order. Rastram is Indian Ocean Community. Nations along the rim of the Ocean of 63,000 miles should together constitute a socio-economic powerhouse to resolve the global financial crisis. Trans-Asian Railway Network and Trans-Asian Highway Network link Bangkok with Vladivostok as an economic multiplier. Law of the Sea changes extend Special Marine Economic Zone to 200 nautical miles from the...

A theory for wealth of nations -- Market economics overturns Adam Smith and Karl Marx In the context of economic theories of political economy, market capitalism dominated by a network of corporations defines global capitalism which makes society subservient. Economic history of two millennia provide a framework for delineating a relativist theory for wealth of nations governed by Sreni dharma to cope with greed and corruption. The metaphor of varaha, upholding the earth provides an outline for sustaining wealth of nations. Reviewing holistic-ethical development models and role of social...

Sagan owns an ancestral brass foundry in Jagadhri, India, where copper and zinc are alloyed to create trade mark Jagadhri brass vessels. The author born in Kidarankondan Tamil-speaking province and educated in Telugu in Penukonda meets Sagan after returning from Manila, Philippines. Together they travel around the globe and visit Louvre and other museums in search of Sarasvati, the Himalayan river and attempt to read the message of Shu-ilishu cylinder seal in cuneiform writing. The novel reports that Sagan has found Sarasvati and her divine message, using ancient links between Ancient Near...

Based on corpora of Indus writing and a dictionary, the book validates Aristotle's insight on writing systems. Indus writing is composed using symbols of spoken words. The symbols are hieroglyphs of meluhha (mleccha) words spoken by artisans recording the repertoire of stone, mineral and metal workers. The writing results in a set of catalogs of metalworking of bronze age. Evidence of this competence in metallurgy which evolved from 4th millennium BCE of bronze age, is provided in corpora of metalware catalogs and a dictionary of melluhha (mleccha). Indus writing was a principal tool of...

Sagan in search of Sarasvati ends up in Muztagh Ata and encounters Chinese guards guarding the treasure of ancu. There were other seekers of ancu before him. He ends up in a bizarre court case in America. He visits Disney World Animal kingdom and takes a ride on the Kali River rapids. As the waters splash over him, he finds a friend on the ride. That friend from Kidarankondan guides him through the story of about seven millennia of people in search of ancu which is called amsu in an old human document called the Rigveda. Sagan finds the alchemical formula for making gold from mineral rocks of...