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There must be something wrong with our top down approach in teaching History to our young ones. And what do you expect from the politicians who always keep changing the origin and the course of history as they fancy to befit their bedevilled agenda? The real history of a civilisation and a nation should be rightly learnt from a ground-up manner. The real story lies hidden amongst the many untold narrations of the little people, the fabric who make the nation, not the generals and warlords who look at events of the day through their rose tinted glasses who would want themselves to be portrayed in Annals of times as heroes. Many such stories of the ordinary people remain untold in this country. Their viewpoints had never been seen as sexy or newsworthy. After all, they are just economic migrants in pursuit of survival from a land already in ruins. What do they know? They are sometimes viewed by the earlier dwellers as just snatchers of the country's wealth to send it...

The Latters Of Thoma | Minu Ittyipe http://www.outlookindia.com SYRIAN CHRISTIANS The Nasrani journey to prosperity has a touch of the Damascene about it Spot A Syrian Christian Spreading wings:  Can be found in every field—hospitality, plantations, jewellery, construction, media. Trustworthy and hardworking:  He fears a moral authority above. You can trust him with your soul, but don’t expect him to trust you. Tall claims:  Will claim superiority. Will ‘know’ every high connection. Confident:  With a partly non-Indian appellation, they have a robust sense of national identity. Smart:  Stylish and well turned out. She takes pride in her cooking and throws fabulous parties. *** It is said, in the grand tradition of apocrypha, that long, long before Christianity wore the vestments of Rome’s official state religion, the Gospel of Christ arrived in Kerala on a Syrian boat and seeped into its being like tea from a teabag (with due credit to Ar...