Koenraad Elst: I Challenge You To Either Prove Your Words or To Eat Them Rather Than Playing Politics and Verbal Games

 

Koenraad Elst: I Challenge You To Either Prove Your Words or To Eat Them Rather Than Playing Politics and Verbal Games

Shrikant G. Talageri

 

Someone just sent me a very interesting tweet just put up by Koenraad Elst. Apparently, someone put up a tweet saying he did not take Jijith seriously. And Koenraad replied:

https://x.com/ElstKoenraad/status/2001266760063033765

“Those are only Jijith's Twitter posts. To take his true measure, read his books. His historical assessments of scripture are revolutionary, & totally unrefuted. For the 1st time ever, the Vedas & Epics make sense against the background of *reality*.”

5:52 PM · Dec 17 2025

 

Really? His books are “revolutionary and totally unrefuted”, and “For the 1st time ever, the Vedas & Epics make sense against the background of *reality*.”?

Thank you for coming out in the open. At least you have taken one step towards speaking the truth (about your agenda), and also making very clear your (till now closeted) low opinion about the amount of “sense” that my own analysis of the Vedas “makes”. And also making clear your equally low opinion about my point-by-point factual and data-based criticism (in my review) of his extremely fictitious story-book “Rivers of Ṛgveda”!

But opinions have zero value without data-based arguments and evidence. Isn’t that the principled stand you always pretend to take in your twitter squabbles with your critics and with trolls? Why don’t you move one step ahead on the march towards openness and honesty and actually give your detailed point-by-point reply to the criticism of his book in my review of his book below, instead of playing politics and stonewalling the refutation, all the while pretending and even proclaiming that his books are “revolutionary and totally unrefuted”? Or at least admit (point-by-point) that you accept all his fictitious creations, starting with the five Sarayu rivers and the two mutually inimical Bharata tribes who are both the heroes of different hymns in the Rigveda?

https://talageri.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-review-of-rivers-of-rgveda-by-jijith.html

 

For many months you and Jijith were carrying on a grand and relentless disinformation campaign about my analysis of the Rigveda (Manu in Ayodhya, Divodāsa and Sudās in Kashi, etc. etc.) which remained unchecked even after I repeatedly clarified the points in public (and before that in discussion threads on the now closed-down Indic discussion group), until I had to remove my kid-gloves, abandon discretion and politeness, and openly call out your lies. I thought you had stopped your attacks, but this above tweet shows that you were only biding your time.  I do not wish to again indulge in mutual mudslinging.

Please keep the discussion (if you dare to have it) restricted to the data, and give your point-by-point data-based replies to every point of criticism of his first book that I have made in my above review. I address this to you, Koenraad, and wish to have nothing to do with Jijith himself (I cannot function at that level of inanity). Don’t shoot from his shoulders.