Tamil Sangam literature venerates Krishna as Maayon and Balrama as Valyon — proof that North and South India shared one civilizational consciousness, not two separate cultures.
Author Chandru Ramesh presents his book Mahabharata: Myth or History, five years in the making, which compiles cross-disciplinary evidence for the historicity of the Mahabharata — from archaeology, numismatics, ancient coins, and inscriptions to Buddhist, Jain, Greek, and Vedic literary sources. The book’s unique contribution is accessibility: it presents all this evidence without complex astronomical equations, making the scholarly case available to a general reader for the first time in one volume.
The political motivation is precise and necessary: a Tamil Nadu politician’s statement calling for the eradication of Sanatana Dharma like a disease rests entirely on the premise that Tamil culture is racially and civilizationally separate from “Aryan” Hinduism. Sangam literature demolishes this claim on its own terms — showing that Krishna and Balrama were deeply revered in ancient Tamil poetry, that 5-versus-100 appears in Tamil texts pointing unmistakably to the Kurukshetra context, and that the cultural continuity was pan-Bharatiya from the beginning. The book is both scholarship and counter-narrative.

About the Speaker:
Chandru Ramesh is a software engineer-turned-historian. His top-rated book showcases the historical evidences of Mahabharata. He presents his research at universities, forums, and temples worldwide. He leads Historika Foundations, dedicated to establishing the Real History of India.