Inviting a historian.

PROFESSOR Irfan Habib is a renowned professor emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University. His corpus on Indian history is impressive. In a recent online note to a friend of mine in Tharparkar, he wrote: 'I regret that despite writing a book [on the] Indus Civilisation, I have never been able to see a major Indus site, let alone Mohenjo Daro.'

It would be wonderful if the Sindh government, with a nod from Islamabad, were to invite Prof Habib for a couple of weeks to visit all the sites of interest to him along the Indus. Of course his trip (via Dubai) and his stay should...