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Often overwhelming, at places boring but still, enlightening experience this book is. As it travels to various topics, from history to geology to archeology to Vedas and my most favorite topic - civilizations. That too, the amazing Indus valley civilization. (or should I say Indus-Sarasvati civilization?) It shows how gorgeous the past must have been.
At places, I find it a bit boring, obviously not because of the writing, but my own capacity to digest such complex and vast field of geology and its findings. (Reading such book for the first time, hence) I enjoyed the part when author talks about civilizations that Indus and Sarasvati rivers nurtured. And possibilities of their vanishing.
As I have visited two such sites, curiosity only increases after reading that there are as many as more than 3000 such sites !!! As Michel Danino puts "The sum total of the explorations was simply prodigious and could be ranked among the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, even though we rarely hear about it - especially in India, where most school textbooks describe the 'Indus valley' civilization as it was know in the 1930s !"
Its indeed amazing how an author, who is originally from France, can have so thoroughly studied Vedas, Purana, Brahmanas and many such literature in India, and can easily find clues in any of them, regarding Sarasvati.
If you are in, for snail paced but enriching experience, this is strongly recommended.
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