Jagdalpur Revisited: February 2023
From February 5, 2023 I was visiting Jagdalpur (Chattisgarh, India) for a whirlwind two-day trip with eight of my close friends. Jagdalpur is a sleepy city with connectivity to exactly one other airport outside Chattisgarh, that is Hyderabad! About 30% of the population are "Schedule Tribes" - that is Adivasis - the Original Inhabitants of India. They are so ancient that they predate all other migrants to India. Most of these are "Gond" - their script has finally been used with success to decipher the script of Indus Valley Civilization dating back to 7500 BCE (Bhirrana, Haryana). That is much to the chagrin of the "Aryans are local Indians" gang who failed for decades to connect the Indus Valley script to Sanskrit and Brahmi. You can see the complete list of flights in and out of Ma Danteshwari ("Mother Tooth Goddess") Airport. Ma Danteshwari refers to the local goddess, for who a temple was made around 14th century CE. Worship of some local...