As part of the increasing give and take exchanges taking place these days between India and Pakistan, the latter has demanded that the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-Daro be returned to it . Dancing Girl Dancing Girl is a bronze statuette excavated from the Mohenjo-Daro site before India and Pakistan became two separate nations. It is just 10.5 centimetres high and is about 5000 years old. The pubescent girl is stark naked except for a whole array of bangles and a necklace. The posture looks like that of a dancer though she might have been confidently making a statement to her audience. She holds her chin up and looks smug. In short, she is a total contrast to what today’s Pakistan expects of a young girl. Let us visit her briefly at the National Museum in New Delhi to ask her what she thinks of her threatened extradition. “Oh, I think it would be horrible,” says DG losing all the panache that has graced her face for millennia. “W...
Cerebrate and Celebrate