Chennai link to Harappa
With the
deficient monsoon giving India the blues, this scientific discovery has
obviously got the entire country and the world sitting up and taking notice. An
international research study says it was climate change that snuffed out the
Indus valley civilisation. Chennai has a special reason to be proud of with
this finding, as two scientists from the city were part of the research team.
At Chennai’s Institute of Mathematical Sciences, when Ronojoy
Adhikari and Kavita Gangal were analysing the growth and decline of the Indus
valley sites (also called Harappan sites) over time, they found that something
curious happened around 1900 BCE.