02-16-2008, 08:03 PM
Why is the Indus Research Centre in South India. Are they trying to create an image of a Dravidian language in Indus script. Are they trying to make it a political issue by making a Dravidians being invaded by Aryans. Every thing is interesting.
http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/16/stories/...230200.htm
Talk on Indus script today
Staff Reporter
CHENNAI: A lecture on âIs the Indus script indeed not a writing system?â will be delivered by Indus script expert Asko Parpola at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Taramani, at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday.
Mr. Parpola is professor emeritus of Indology Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
He has studied the Indus script for over four decades. Mr. Asko Parpola is also the chief editor of âCorpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptionsâ, a multi-volume work comprising photographs of collections in India, Pakistan and other parts of the world.
The Indus Research Centre of the library, functioning on the Central Polytechnic campus in Taramani, was set up in 2006.
It has been operating under the guidance of honorary consultant Iravatham Mahadevan and has been organising several lectures.
For more details, contact the library over the phone at 22542551/52.
http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/16/stories/...230200.htm
Talk on Indus script today
Staff Reporter
CHENNAI: A lecture on âIs the Indus script indeed not a writing system?â will be delivered by Indus script expert Asko Parpola at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Taramani, at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday.
Mr. Parpola is professor emeritus of Indology Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
He has studied the Indus script for over four decades. Mr. Asko Parpola is also the chief editor of âCorpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptionsâ, a multi-volume work comprising photographs of collections in India, Pakistan and other parts of the world.
The Indus Research Centre of the library, functioning on the Central Polytechnic campus in Taramani, was set up in 2006.
It has been operating under the guidance of honorary consultant Iravatham Mahadevan and has been organising several lectures.
For more details, contact the library over the phone at 22542551/52.