Civilization

[close] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana - This reading group will explore the realm of world history ranging from the cradle of civilization around 10,000 BCE to the present. It will focus on books covering specific time periods, places, people, games, food, geography, literature, navigation, warfare, art, architecture, science, poetry, drama, epics, trade, languages, mythology, archaeology, religion and much more. The works will be selected by active members through monthly polls. Hopefully this journey will be enriching and strongly inspired by the muse of history.

[close] The year 2025...all is destroyed, the world a pile of ash and bones, except for a group of few. Only they survived, all in different places, all apart from the others. They must find a way to survive, even if the world will never will. Civilization must be rebuilt even if it was never meant to! They must join together and start anew and bring hope back to the planet.

[close] The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is given to themes of: engaging politics, sprawling battles, drugs(errr .. mead) and debauchery. If authors like Robyn Young, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield resonate with you, this group is designed for you. If you are bursting in your seams to discuss their books, please do come in. AUTHORS welcome as READERS ONLY. Limited opportunity for self promotion exists in A&M! No romantic melodrama books please. Want to gush about this great Victorian-era romance novel you've discovered and had been smitten with? Not the right group for you. We encourage freedom of opinion on books and authors in this group. As long as the opinion is respectful and harmless and breaks no Group rules. Don't feel you can't be honest about a book or author. No matter how popular the book or author is. Our Group Motto, courtesy of George S. Patton, is: If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

[close] Join the weekly meet by registering at https://forms.gle/pu8RjTEYXtHApF9Z8 Welcome to Kasmira the most beautiful place on earth and its 5500 year old people and their culture From 2500 BC up to early fourteenth century Kashmir is acknowledged to have been the Lighthouse of Asia with China, Korea, Japan, India, Tibet, Nepal, Indonesia, Cambodia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan drawing their inspiration from it. With Central Asia emerging as the epicenter of the New Great Game an appreciation of this civilization is critical in terms of what answers its emphasis on Knowledge, Consciousness, Non Violence, Meritocracy and living a full life across all thirteen dimensions of human existence has to offer contemporary issues. The nova of Kashmir is not limited to Central Asia but extends globally. Today we see it in the Forty Four million Americans who follow Patanjali the father of Yoga; in Panini the formulator of Sanskrit Grammar which made Kashmir the crest jewel of the Indic civilization; in aesthetics the pioneer of which was the peerless AbhinavaguptapAdA; in its scholars which Kashmir sent more to China, Greece, Java than the rest of India combined. This group will especially focus on those creative activities which are by the dharmic civilization, of the dharmic civilization and for the dharmic civilization.