Indus-Brahmi Relationship Audio (52K)
"Several scholars have said that there is a relationship between the two, that the Indus script survived and slowly became linear and ultimately lead to the Brahmi script." "I do not at all believe in this theory. The Indus script was in existence not later than at the most about 1500 B.C. The earliest undisputed examples of the Brahmi script are only from the days of Ashoka, around 300 B.C. There is at least a gap of 1,000 years before the introduction of the Brahmi script and the complete collapse of the Indus script."
"Another reason to say that the Brahmi script is not related to the Indus script is that the connection between Brahmi and some form of Semitic script is too strong. Continued in Full Interview