Speaking Archaeologically™

                                                     Quite admittedly , my meeting with Adham Khan was long overdue and any self respecting lover of Delhi’s ruins would look at me with great distaste at this point. But even then, the sheer excess of history just oozing out of this particular section of the city is almost nauseating. Even those that knowingly choose to ignore it can do so for only so long. I, as luck would have it, lived just 10 minutes away.  So after a short detour to the Mughal general  Azim Khan’s much neglected tomb , I headed for the  ancient suburbs of Mehrauli. Qutub Minar all this while, was towering over everything around it and watchfully guiding lost tourists and curious travelers like me.  Behind the Qutub complex, on a road towards the Mehruali bus Depot , it's quite easy to beli...

It was close to the end of 2015 when Tarannum and I get a text from Shriya. Seeing our knack for art, we were offered the ginormous task of making the official logos for Speaking Archaeologically. Each one of us had to make three drafts  out of which  only one would be finalised as the SA logo. To make things easier for us,  the panel off ered to exempt us from the upcoming tasks, t o  aid us focus on the logos. Now  this is where the pact of secrecy came  into existence. So, S hriya informs the volunteers that their partners ( the tasks being partnership ones) Tarannum and Aditi w ould not be taking part in the upcoming essays as we were involved in a "Special Task". Now all this made us sound important and gave us the edge over the others except that after a while it became absolutely crushing to keep  the secret , specially for me! Now  every  single volunteer  w anted to know about this so called "S pecial Task" that Tarannum a...