The recent evidence from Mohenjo-daro of a "Kot Dijian" layer beneath its Indus ruins, including the city wall, dating from 2600 BCE or earlier, brings renewed interest to this precursor culture to the Indus civilization.
The early use and gradual development of wheeled vehicles at the site of Harappa, Pakistan to better understand the role of carts in the process of urban development.
This is a deeply researched and satisfying book, one that takes on the insightful point made by Marshall: "Great cities with teeming populations like Mohenjo-daro and Harappa could never have come into being save in a country which was capable of producing food on a big scale."
by Kaiser Tufail
About 60 kilometers north-west of Gwadar, close to the Makran Militia post at Suntsar, lie the ruins of an enigmatic settlement that goes by the present-day appellation of Sutkagen
"I saw a herd of unicorns today. I write this in full possession of my sense." So begins the short story The Unicorn Expedition by the great Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray. featuring a Professor Shanku story.
NEW! R. Balakrishnan is a retired Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S.) officer, was a close associate of Iravatham Mahadevan, and is the author of a number of books, including Journey of a Civilization Indus to Vagai (2019).
