The Needle’s Eye
Holding Up Half the Sky: From the Son Valley to a Cockpit
In the summer of 1982, I travelled to Sidhi district in Madhya Pradesh to report on a fascinating archaeological expedition for India Today. An Indo-US team excavating in the Son Valley was sifting through stone artefacts from the Upper Paleolithic period (between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago) when they came across a rough circular sandstone…