S.Akash

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#IndusSarasvathi Civilization! Did some digging in @grok to understand the historical behavior of Sarasvathi river in order to get an understanding of how far back could the human settlements have formed. It is fascinating stuff: Although Sarasvathi river is hundreds of thousands of years old, it was never a 'major' Himalayan river by its own independent size and reach like the rivers Ganga, Indus, or Brahmaputhra are. It was mostly a Siwalik stream, seasonal at times, and no flows at other times, reaching only as far South as Northern Rajasthan where it ended up in lakes. The only times it ever became a grand and mighty river, flowing all the way to the Arabian Sea, was when it 'joined hands' with rivers Yamuna and Sutlej, with Yamuna being the biggest contributor to its higher water volume. The last time this happened - referred to as 'capture' as in Sarasvathi capturing Yamuna's water, which I would rather call it as 'lending' as in Sarasvathi reaching out to Yamuna and Yamuna giving its water to Sarasvathi 🙂 - was ~9,000 years ago when there was a lot more of melting of Himalayan glaciers (due to warmer climate after the last ice age ended) happening. Stay with me, it gets more interesting from here... The sea level, too, was rising globally during this time, including in the West coast of India. The Rann of Kutch area (where Sarasvathi met the Arabian Sea) did get submerged, but not fully. There were multiple islands forming in this area where humans could have settled! (Only ~70% of 42,000 km² of Rann of Kutch got submerged, so that still left a lot of area available for human settlement!) And because Sarasvathi was flowing into Rann of Kutch, it was also depositing huge amounts of sediments in that area which started to build up and up, and, simultaneously, when sea water receded just a bit and settled to almost the current level about 4,500 years ago, that is when we see the human settlements starting to explode into a major urban center. So, the rough picture that I get from this is: Islands in Rann of Kutch around 9,000 years ago, more available and fertile land gradually forming - created by Sarasvathi's own sediments - while, at the same time, sea waters receding until around 4,500 years ago, a large area of land opening up, explosion of civilization happening for nearly 1,000 years with Sarasvathi still flowing by, and the river (and the civilization along with it) eventually dying off by 3,500 years ago after both Sutlej and Yamuna rivers firmly moved away from Sarasvati river due to tectonic activities that happened thousands of years earlier (and also from decline in monsoon activity). So, there is a possibility that human settlements may have happened as far back as 9,000 years ago. (It would be too presumptuous to think that human settlements - organizing into villages or cities - could not have happened for nearly 4,000 years!) Evidences of human activity (from that far back) were indeed found from excavations, but more need to be done to get a better picture of things. As they say, 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence', right?

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1. Fix food pyramid... Done! ✅ 2. Bring common sense in meds use... Done! ✅ 3. Improve processed food... Done!✅ 4. Put junk food in its place... Nicely Done! ✅ 5. Promote home-cooked 'healthy' food... Loading! 🔃 👍 #MAHA!

GUTS, @ElahiNazia1. Visits a Lenskart shop, defies manager Mohsin, and puts tilak on visibly glad H employees.