Confederacy Of 'Uncles' & The Iconic 'Dancing Girl Of Mohenjo-daro'

The “Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro” represents a form that became the aesthetic standard for sculptors down the ages.

The picture of a page in an NCERT textbook of the nude iconic “Dancing Girl of Harappa", with her lady bits covered up to protect her modesty, looked fake at first glance. Surely, it had to be AI-generated. Part of a well-planned digital hit job to trick the world into believing that under the so-called “Hindu nationalist" BJP, India had become a prudish redoubt.

A redoubt governed by a confederacy of “uncles" that can’t handle even the petrified, evolved and timeless aesthetic of pioneering ancients. But alas, it was all too true. The photo wasn’t fake. The NCERT had indeed made the statue wear a bashful sleeve. Apparently, some genius in the NCERT scheme of........

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