Sindoor, dice, chess pieces, yoga postures — 5,000-year-old Harappan artefacts prove India’s civilisational continuity. Prof. B.B. Lal’s life work finally told. This tribute lecture, organised across multiple academic institutions, introduces India’s most distinguished archaeologist, Prof. B.B. Lal (born 1921), whose excavations at Hastinapur, Ayodhya, and Kalibangan redrew the map of Indian civilisational history. The talk catalogues the astonishing modernity of Harappan material culture — sindoor, yoga postures, the swastika, chess pieces,...

India’s greatest archaeologist wrote his 20th book at the age of 100 — and changed how we understand our own civilization. This memorial lecture at the Indian Museum celebrates the extraordinary legacy of Padma Vibhushan Prof. B.B. Lal, who excavated Harappa in 1946 and spent eight decades linking archaeological evidence to Vedic and Itihasa geography.Air Vice Marshal Rajesh Lal, the archaeologist’s son, shares intimate details — his mother Kusum’s decades of stratigraphic documentation at every dig site, Prof. Lal’s lifelong motto...

Throughout his illustrious life, Late Prof. B. B. Lal had worked tirelessly to find the true history of ancient Bharat. Where the wrong historicity of ancient India, manufactured by Western historians in colonial times was being told..