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Besides that I have these reminders
1) As someone joked, short of calling Veda Vyasa back, Mr Debroy is probably going to be the closest to an authoritative voice on the Mahabharat that we have in our times. Let us make it worth his while to come spend his time with us. Let us try to keep our arguments substantive rather than emotive
2) Lastly, and most importantly: Whatever you do, whatever you think, always remember one thing: SAHADEV KNOWS (or, at least the NSA does)
( I am unashamedly admitting to plagiarizing this line from - https://ovshake.blogspot.com/2013_10_01_archive.html)
And for the smartalecks who are likely to tell me that Sahadev cannot talk though he knows, I will say this. He has learned to do email, since he met the newly minted Technology Deva, Steve of the clan Jobs.
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