Evolution of Writing Audio (52K) "We do not find [clear signs of] development from the pictograph right up to the logo-syllabic writing that we know was used in the Indus Civilization.

"We do not find the earlier one [pictorial writing], which is known to us in Mesopotamia, it is known to us in Egypt. Here we find directly logo-syllabic writing. Hence, they must have known about the logo-syllabic writing then in use in Mesopotamia with whom they had trade connections, and then evolved their own, on the same basis. This is what I am maintaining: that as we do not find from the simple pictograph developing into logo-syllabic in Indus Civilization, but we find it in Mesopotamia, and therefore some wise man, some intellectual here in this region must have known that here is a system of writing, why not evolve our own on the same basis." Full Interview