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.
The excavators at Kanmer, led by JS Kharakwal, challenged conventional views and explored the crucial relationship between small settlements and major urban centres.
The cultural remains of Daimabad, one of the most debated locations, not only reflect Harappan influence but also demonstrate continuity with local Deccan Chalcolithic cultures.
Archaeologist SR Rao used compelling evidence to identify a baked-brick rectangular structure as a dockyard in Lothal, but many scholars have expressed scepticism about this claim.
Professor Vasant Shinde said at least four phases of excavations at sites such as Rakhigarhi and Dholavira have revealed that Harappans “taught the whole world how to live in cities”.
Identified at 111 sites, many of them in Southeast Rajasthan, the Ahar culture had a sophisticated social structure centred around copper, lead, zinc, and silver mines.
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
In his new book, CDS emphasises that India secures itself through policy & structure, not a written NSS document. Israel never released a formal NSS, he mentions.
India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.
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