Sanyal: India is reconstructing a nail-free 5th-century Gupta ship in Goa
Sanjeev Sanyal · SANJEEV SANYAL On India's East Vs West Divide, Kolkata's Decline, Goa, C-PACE And UPSC | Neon Show · Nov 1, 2024 · at 57:51
Sanjeev Sanyal, member of India's EAC-PM, describes an initiative he is involved with to reconstruct and sail an ancient Indian vessel.
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“Funded by the Ministry of Culture, and the Indian Navy has very kindly agreed to kind of curate it, is that we are building a fifth century AD ship. So we are building a wooden ship based on what it would have been based on sort of what we know, how it would have been during the Gupta period. Yeah. So that ship is now currently under construction in Goa. We are not going to use any nails in its construction. It's stitched together.”
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