The Dancing Girl of Mohenjodaro

Very nice.

DEATH OF SECULARISM


I came across this compelling Oz Guinness quote today:

Americans with a purely secular view of life have too much to live with, too little to live for. Everything is permitted and nothing is important. But once growth and prosperity cease to be their reason for existence, they are bound to ask questions about the purpose and meaning of their lives: Whence? Whither? Why? And to such questions secularism has no answers that have yet proved widely satisfying in practice. Few of the great thinkers of the twentieth century have remained loyal to secular humanism. Secularism in its sophisticated form rarely flourishes outside intellectual centers where the mind is the organizing center of life. In its more "popular" Marxist form, it is keeling over arthritically. The very emptiness of our secular age is its deepest spiritual significance.

It is even conceivable that our generation is standing on the threshold of a rebound of historic proportions. The collapse of the great counterreligious ideologies - Freudianism's failure to recodify the private world and Marxism's to recodify the public - clears the greatest obstacle to this possibility. Philosophical denials of faith have become affirmations that need denying. Social permissions have become constrictions from which we need liberating. Secular iconoclasms have become idols that need debunking. Moral inversions have become blind orthodoxies against which we need new heresies. Critical deconstruction has become destructiveness against which the need is to build and rebuild. Even secular humanism turns out to be, not the bogey its enemies fear, but an oxymoron its supporters regret - for secularism does not produce humanism; humanism requires, not secularism, but supernaturalism.You might need to read that more than once. I did. And each time I read it, it made more sense than before.

Oz Guinness, The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith (New York: Free Press, 1993), p. 398.

it is said, Marshal and wheeler , mistook the Pose as that of a dancing girl, maybe mistook it , something from bharat natiyam.
that is why some now call Marshal and wheeler "orientalist 'archaeologists".

..by the way people have been trying to find Links between
Indus valey civilization and say....for example Regveeda or Mahabharat....

people like Dr S R Rao, who believe in non-invasionist theory of aryan migration into these lands have been trying to decipher the Indus valey Script .

indus valey script has been found as far as Taamil Nadu in india, hencce the Indus-saraswati civilization was not just confined to the indus valey only.

and poses serious claims to the theory that indus valey civilzation was basically aryan and not dravidian.

I recall that pakistan refused to list mohenjodoro on the world heritage list, or was it harappa.

Some have wondered that maybe it would be better if Mohenjodaro is buried again only to be rediscovered by a better future, but I think we just need the Baluchi girl to dance back into the land of Indus and rescue us from the bearded priests
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This last para & especially the last three words have breathed & resuscitated the entire "travelogue". The gametes of the Oooooons went on overdrive & overtime and the iceberged orifice in anticipation of an orgasmic orgy.

Woe to them the reports coming out of the bastions of Secularoonism are for them not good at all. Beards & Hijaabs are giving the ones dying to molt their western attires at the drop of a dime a run for their money.

a good one ..
unfortunately lot of our art / history been stolen by British and later Indians but thats another topic.

Very, very nice .... actually excellent.

National Museaum in Dehli has many Indus artefacts, including the replica of the priest. I thought it's original at Dehli Museum but I came to know now that it's not.

Ally, Harappa.com had very good collection of pictures.

Nice read,

check out this site

http://www.harappa.com/

I tried to post the Girl here but failed.

I saw the Dancing Girl at National Museum at New Dehli.It's amazing how Indus people mastered the art of metullergy in those days!

The girl cud be an imagination of a sculptor or she's a genuine entertainer-girl in those days. The sense of fashion is very myuch evident in the icon.

1. hair-style
2. amulet with beads or seashells
3. bangles although assymmetric are in abundance
4. mammalian glands are not fully developed....must be a teenage girl.

The Harappan people must be very very liberal to allow such show of skin.

Nice read!!

Great read. Hope to read more of your writing at Chowk.

I too wish that the dancing girl would dance back and relieve us from the mysogynists. I'd move right back to Baluchistan. What a beautiful thought...

S

I almost bypassed this article because of the low level of interacts. I am glad I read it. It was very enjoyable; you have a nice easy writing style which is good for travelogies and memoirs.

I almost bypassed this article because of the low level of interacts. I am glad I read it. It was very enjoyable; you have a nice easy writing style which is good for travelogies and memoirs.

Great writing job here Saqib Mausoof Sahib.

It is about time that we saw some of your work here on

CHOWK. I especially liked the closing.

How is the "Kala Pul" project going?

Ras