Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in the lost-wax process about c. The statue is Dancing Girl is well-regarded as a work of art, and is a cultural artefact of the Indus Valley Civilisation. This is one of 2 bronze art works found at Mohenjo-daro that show more flexible features when compared to other more formal poses. The girl is naked, wears a number of bangles and a necklace and is shown in a natural standing position with one hand on her hip. She has her long hair styled in a big bun that is resting on her shoulder. In , British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler described the item as his favourite statuette:. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There's nothing like her, I think, in the world. John Marshall, the archeologist at Mohenjo-daro who found the figure, described the figure as "a young girl, her hand on her hip in a half-impudent posture, and legs slightly forward as she beats time to the music with her legs and feet".


Arun Gandhi: ‘My grandfather saw my anger as fuel for change’

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The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: from the archive, 31 January 1948
Surat: Female trainee clerks of the Surat Municipal Corporation SMC were allegedly made to stand naked together in a room for a medical test at a civic body-run hospital here, prompting authorities to order a probe. Surat Municipal Commissioner Banchhanidhi Pani on Friday ordered a probe into allegations that around 10 female trainee clerks of the civic body were made to stand naked for a medical test in the gynaecology ward of the hospital. The shocking incident comes days after students of a girls college in Gujarat's Bhuj town were allegedly forced by hostel authorities to remove their undergarments to prove they were not menstruating. In its complaint to the commissioner on Thursday, the SMC Employees Union alleged even unmarried women were checked for pregnancy by female doctors. Acting on the complaint, Pani on Friday formed a three-member committee to probe the allegations and submit a report in 15 days.
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