We are writing in response to two articles (Papers 1 and 2) by Srinivasan et al. 1 published in Current Science. While the authors make a sincere attempt to understand Indus writing, we believe the conclusions are not supported by the data and the results provided are at variance with different aspects of Indus writing. The articles overlook prior work on entropic and statistical analysis of the Indus script 2–9 that studied many of these issues. We discuss some of our reservations and concerns below, and refer the interested readers to the references for a more detailed discussion (these papers are also available at: www. tifr.res.in/~archaeo).
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