Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay likens the internet to the Room of Requirements in Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. “If you ask for something, it will give it to you. People underestimate the effect that social media and Google have on our knowledge systems,” says the software engineer and independent researcher, who has been working on decoding the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation since 2014. According to her, being a non-specialist, unencumbered by any preconceived ideas and notions, helped her approach the script with an open mind, reading widely about and around it, assisted by the internet.
