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The Dancing Girl of Mohenjodaro

Saqib Mausoof August 27, 2007

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#1 Posted by VRV on August 28, 2007 6:33:08 pm
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#3 Posted by VRV on August 28, 2007 6:34:37 pm
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#4 Posted by Ras on August 28, 2007 9:57:26 pm


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
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#5 Posted by stuka on August 28, 2007 11:19:00 pm
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.
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#6 Posted by stuka on August 28, 2007 11:19:01 pm
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.
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#7 Posted by SaimaShah on August 29, 2007 3:35:11 am
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
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#8 Posted by harish_hyd on August 29, 2007 4:21:16 am
Nice read!!
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#9 Posted by VRV on August 29, 2007 4:30:25 am
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.

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#10 Posted by Ally on August 29, 2007 5:11:46 am
Nice read,

check out this site

http://www.harappa.com/
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#11 Posted by VRV on August 29, 2007 5:56:30 am
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.

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#12 Posted by GT on August 29, 2007 7:47:47 am
Very, very nice .... actually excellent.
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#13 Posted by IB on August 29, 2007 1:12:48 pm
a good one ..
unfortunately lot of our art / history been stolen by British and later Indians but thats another topic.
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#14 Posted by echoboom on August 29, 2007 5:26:31 pm
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.
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#15 Posted by jayp on August 30, 2007 3:26:11 am
I recall that pakistan refused to list mohenjodoro on the world heritage list, or was it harappa.
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#16 Posted by Afat on August 30, 2007 5:12:22 am
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.

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