K. Amarnath Ramakrishn, Director, National Mission on Monument and Antiquity, addressed the conference in Madurai 20 September 2025. Photo Credit: G. Moorthy
Against the background of the political boxing between the center and the rule of Tamil Nadu above Keeladi’s findings K. Amarnath Ramakrishn, the director of the National Mission for Monuments and Antiques, said “we live in a vicious time when fiction is treated with history to shorten the origin and facts of civilization”.
Mr. Ramakrishna, who created a report of 982-page keeladi, claimed that history can only be based on facts and not on literature. “As many claim, gods can never create civilizations, they are just people who are able to create and develop civilizations,” he said.
In an effort to avert the importance of Keeladi’s findings and “deceive the masses”, he said that many people, including educational, began to connect those with the Mahabharata connection Keedi with the Manalur. A remarkable part of the surrounding discussion was that the Keeladim report was to be fully released.
Mr. Ramakrishn, who spoke at a conference organized by the Association of Artists Tamil over the progressive writers to observe 100 years of civilization Indus Valley civilization, said those who try to use fictitious history in defense literature, but excavations based on reality can never be fictional or modified. For those who claim that Sangam literature, who spoke very much about the living of common masses, has a reference to gods and religion, said Mr. Ramakrishn that the original texts never spoke about God or religion.
Unlike Keeladi, the excavations in Tamil Nadu, unlike the Keeladi, were not widely known, said that many findings, including the Adichanallurus report, were either incompletely written or “buried” to erase history. “While the report Adichanallur does not lead the results of bone tests that were collected during the excavation, the study in the Kancheepuram district, usually associated with its religious places, has not yet been completely released,” he added.
Although the inscriptions played an important role in history, they can only be compared with the current time and land documents, he said. “Many of them simply carry trivial details of the transfer of real estate and other materials,” he said. For this reason, he added that archaeological studies can only be taken into account by the urns and other residues secured during the excavations.
Mr. Ramakrishna said that no inscriptions in the northern parts of India were found before Ashoka. “Even those found from the Ashoka period had the wording in developed form,” he said.
“As a man who dug the ground in Keeladi and supervised the trench process, I can be sure that the place had rich material evidence, just enough to reveal the rich history of Tamils,” said Mr. Ramakrishna.
He said that the efforts spent to distort history using literature and fictional stories could not stand for a long time, adding: “The stories always travel quickly, but the truth that seemed to end, last and stand high.”
Former officer and writer Ias R. Balakrishnan, who merged Mr. Ramakrishny, said, “As history says civilization is developing along the rivers, Vaigai, called” Vaiyai “, was also known as Kaadhal Nadhi (Love River).” But over the years, with the intrusion of a religious context, she got a different color, he said.
Published – September 2025 21:30
