Take it with a pinch of salt!”, is what historian Anita Rane-Kothare, head of the department of Ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, told us, when we asked about whether Ashutosh Gowariker’s Mohenjo Daro would do justice to the historical story of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation. From showing jumping crocodiles to women wearing feathery headgear, Gowariker is facing flak for showing distorted facts about the […]

  he ancient city of Mohenjo Daro was one of the world’s earliest major urban settlements – but as Razia Iqbal found on a recent visit to Pakistan, its remains are in danger of crumbling away. As a lover of language, I am convinced that certain combinations of letters have in them some innate magic – like Kubla Khan, or Xanadu, or Nineveh. So allow the words Mohenjo Daro to […]