You are severely and grossly underestimating the influence of ancient culture on our everyday lives in India - a living example of what whitewashing of our hist

You are severely and grossly underestimating the influence of ancient culture on our everyday lives in India - a living example of what whitewashing of our history has achieved. In the words of B B Lal, director of the Archaeological Survey of India: ...the application by married Hindu women of vermilion (sindūra) in the partition line of the hair on the head, the wearing of multiple bangles on the arms and of pāyala around the ankles; practice of yogic exercises; worshipping Lord Shiva, even in the form of liṅga-cum-yoni; performing rituals using fire-altars, using sacred symbols like the svastika; and so on. Indeed, be not surprised if I told you that the way you greet each other with namaste goes back to the Harappan times. Above all, even some of the folk tales, like those of ‘A Thirsty Crow’ or ‘The Cunning Fox’, which grandmothers narrate to the children while putting them to sleep originated in the Harappan times. https://www.newsgram.com/vedic-and-harappan-are-respectively-literary-and-material-facets-of-same-civilization-b-b-lal/amp/ https://www.newsgram.com/vedic-and-harappan-are-respectively...