The interpretation of this bronze statuette was shaped by the colonial officers who viewed the past through the lens of their own assumptions about Indian society and the role of women.
Dani was not just Pakistan’s most influential archaeologist, but also its most insistent storyteller, often called the “founding father of archaeology”.
At the National Museum's monthly public lecture, Identification of Nishka, archaeologist BR Mani shed light on his study which pushes back the origin of Indian gold coinage back to the 3rd millennium BCE.
ASI survey led by Amalananda Ghosh proved with facts, evidence and precision that it’s not solely Pakistan or India but both were home to the 5000-year-old civilisation.
Over the last five months, many politicians, including Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini, have visited Rakhigarhi, promising to remove encroachments and build a site museum among other facilities.
Archaeologist Vasant Shinde’s hour-long lecture at INTACH Delhi provided a comprehensive and scholarly overview of India’s enduring maritime legacy, and the strategic significance of NMHC Lothal.
Gujarat, often seen as a peripheral outpost to Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, emerged instead as a vibrant zone of cultural negotiation, innovation, and survival.
A reservoir unearthed last month in Haryana’s Rakhigarhi is not just a marvel of Harappan engineering but also advances evolving research on the Saraswati River.
In the absence of a Rosetta Stone-like artefact – which helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphics – and a lack of bilingual texts, making sense of the Indus script remains a big challenge.
While the Russia-Ukraine war saw the BJP projecting PM Modi as a ‘vishwaguru’ who could end international conflicts, the party has made a nuanced shift in its electoral strategy vis-à-vis the West Asia war.
Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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