My first blog entry...

Well Well....since this is my first entry I want to base this discussion centered around by favorite topic "Ancient India"(people who aren't interested in history please bear with me. I promise I would make it interesting and worth reading).

The picture on the right represents the extend of Ashokan empire in the 3rd century B.C. The areas colored with green represents the areas conquered by him. Watch carefully the small stretch of land at the bottom of India represented as Dravidian Kingdoms. This small stretch of land remained elusive to all the dynasties who tried to conquer it, throughout the history of ancient India. It produced some powerful dynasties at that time such as the chola's and the pallavas. The rulers of these dynasties went on to conquer major parts of south east Asia such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia. When the whole part of northern India is reeling with attack of the foreign invaders, the rulers of these marvelous land defied all the attacks and were able to produce some excellent piece of art and architecture at that time which is truly representative of the Dravidian style. Dravidian's are believed to be the oldest tribe that existed in modern day India. They mainly occupied the southern parts of India. The Tamil brahmi script is the oldest known language which used to be the main local dialect of the ancient Dravidian's.

So if any one want to witness the true style of art and architecture of the ancient native Indians, than South India is the best place to have a look.