Once she'd taken her first steps, the excitement got through to her and she scanned the animals desperately. On their return trip, they stopped at Rangmahal, just outside Suratgarh. They came to a cordoned off area. There were some things from Suratgarh and Rangmahal in the museum at Bikaner. Samir picked up a broken pot and looked at it.
Nothing here looks more than ten years old.
Shweta ignored him and went up and down each mound, picking up pieces of pottery and studying them. Samir caught up with her. Sixteen hundred years ago, there was iron and bronze and so many other metals. It is one of the sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation. The following weekend, they drove to Kalibangan.