Professor Raj Mutharasan's lecture at the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai was an in-depth exploration of one question: Who was the first Indian?

The government of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the Indus script, one of the greatest unsolved linguistic mysteries of the ...

Theories link the script to early Brahmi scripts, Indo-Aryan languages and Sumerian. Decyphering the script would allow researchers to gain further knowledge on governance and beliefs.