For me, to try altering history wilfully is the worst crime possible. Time and again our Human resources Minister has tried his hand at this loathsome art. If you ask me I would say Dr. M.M. Joshi is just like the pigtail at the back of his head - old fashioned! Like his dangling cluster of hair, he too is a needless appendage of Indian politics. I don’t know what he does for HRD, but his contribution to Hindu Resources Development is undeniable. His latest contribution, after proving the course of the mythical River Saraswati, is to find a "Harappa-like" city that flourished on its banks, but now, unfortunately, lying on the floor of the Gulf of Cambay.

Don’t be surprised if he discovers and presents before us the great Kashyapa (father of all Devas & Asuras) doing his great tapas in the backwaters of Trombay. Dr. Joshi, you can’t stand on past glories, especially when their very grounds are shaky. For instance, if I call Rama an impotent man who drove away his wife when she got pregnant, or assert with a hundred persons backing me that Krishna conspired to create the war between the Princes of Hastinapura to save his own small kingdom, how could you counter the argument other than by inciting the fanatics behind you. How would you react if I, the immortal Asura, said that the concept of Rama Rajya was only a deliberate attempt through flexible literature to counter my eminence? Don’t forget sir, I’m older than your Rama and among the deprived classes in at least four States, Bali Rajya and not Rama Rajya is the ideal State.

Coming back to the case in point, how do you think projecting this fictitious river as an extinct one could help you counter the argument that the Indus valley script is Proto-Dravidian libi? Well, the only way for you is to keep accusing obscure Finnish scholars of being anti-Hindu propagandists. If this tactic has worked so far, probably it’ll work this time too.

The Centre may have succeeded in keeping the Union together by dividing the southern part of the country into linguistic States, but what do you aim to achieve by creating an alternative reality? That the Aryans were natives of India? Suppress any sprouting feeling of the existent Aryan-Dravidian divide? Or, a greater Hindu Unity? Whatever it is Dr. Joshi, what if there never was a River Saraswati? What if the Indus Valley Script was Dravidian? And, what if there were no horses in the Indus Valley Civilization? (Of course sir, if your wishes were horses the Great Bath would have been a grand Aryan stable.)

India can still be one, because we like the shape of our national map (our version); because we enjoy learning and speaking several languages; because we like the taste of Keralite, Gujarati, Rajasthani and Marathi food; because we love to compare our Chief Ministers with that of Bihar and Tamil Nadu; because we don’t want to wait for a visa to visit Kashmir or the Andaman islands; because we like being together. Trust Mahabali.