Digging up a nation
Sowmiya Ashok's The Dig: Keeladi and the Politics of India's Past opens with a striking statistic: within twenty days between September and October 2019, over one lakh people visited a muddy field in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga district. They came to peer into excavation trenches, photograph terracotta sherds, and take selfies with what lay beneath a coconut grove. It was, by…
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