An IIT Kharagpur 2022 calendar sparked debate regarding the Indus Valley Civilisation. Let’s not get into the related controversies. However, it immediately reminds us that about a century has passed since the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjodaro but its language still remains cryptic. Just like the Indus unicorn, maybe.
Being a Bengali brought up in Kolkata, I had the opportunity to read the adventures of Professor Shonku, an eccentric super-scientist created by Satyajit Ray. The mythical super-scientist could decipher the Indus scripts! In the story “The Unicorn Expedition”, Ray, however, was surprised at the presence of an imaginary animal such as
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