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Halloween Day

If you don’t believe in ghosts at all then never mind. If you do or you are open to the possibility then go ahead. Halloween is a festival celebrated in North America & Western Europe on 31 st of October. It is related to Hallowmas and All Saints’ Day which is a Christian festival of the dead. People of America celebrate Halloween by having costume parties, mostly spooky and kids collect toffees from the neighbourhood. Although it’s a Christian festival it is celebrated as a non-religious festival. It is Festival of the Dead, in short it is believed that the dead comes to earth & visit our realm. But this is not the only festival which talks about the ghosts of the dead visiting our world. All over the world there are different festivals of the dead from different civilizations & different religions. These festivals are celebrated from mid-August to October end. Here are some of such festivals: Bon Festival :  It is Japanese fes

Aryan Invasion Myth

The Europeans came with the “Aryan Invasion Theory” when they found out that North Indian languages and its ancestor language ‘Sanskrit’ shares very common vocabulary and grammar with the European languages and its ancestor languages i.e. Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Greek and Latin. They concluded that the North Indian languages, their ancestor Sanskrit, Iranian languages and European languages belong to the same origin, which they named “Indo-European.” As many researchers has said, i n those days the European society was very much Euro-Centric. They didn’t want to accept that their language has been influenced by an Indian language i.e. Sanskrit which is considered mother of Indo-European languages. India was under British rule and they didn’t want to accept that their dark skinned slaves were the one who influence them in the ancient times. Therefore they came with the Aryan Invasion Theory. In that theory the Indo-Aryans, subgroup of Aryan race (Europeans) invaded India which drag