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).
An excellent video, by a key thinker about the ancient Indus civilization with wide-ranging experience in neighbouring cultures. This talk was given in Chennai as the Iravatham Mahadevan Endowment Lecture on February 25, 2026.
Rita P. Wright, an archaeologist with long experience understanding the Indus areas around Harappa (see the Beas Settlement and Land Survey) looks at the complex evidence surrounding the decline of Indus civilization at the end of the third and beginning of the second millennium (around 2000 BCE and afterwards).
