The Burial Urn

An incredible archeological find buried deep underground has been uncovered at a construction site on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. When workers dislodge a granite slab, they find buried underneath, an urn containing beads with several clay tablets arranged around it in a precise circle. Fossilized bones from a long dead body are unearthed too, buried close to the urn. What are these objects? Do they mean anything? Are they mere burial artefacts, or do they allude to deeper...
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An incredible archeological find buried deep underground has been uncovered at a construction site on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. When workers dislodge a granite slab, they find buried underneath, an urn containing beads with several clay tablets arranged around it in a precise circle. Fossilized bones from a long dead body are unearthed too, buried close to the urn. What are these objects? Do they mean anything? Are they mere burial artefacts, or do they allude to deeper mysteries?Anjana, who is in love with an American archeologist, comes face to face with social prejudices against their romance, even as the buried objects are uncovered. The objects hint at a tantalizing past, one hard to guess at, and impossible to prove. Do they belong to a prejudice-free past--the so called good old days--or is there something more sinister to them?The past, if it could speak, would disclose the mystery of the burial urn: a complicated saga spanning generations, involving a changing society suspended at the crossroads between a Vedic past and a Puranic future, set in 800 BCE in India around the Sahyadri mountains. Time has erased almost all memories of those people caught in social change, moved by love and revenge, battling social prejudices and personal tragedies. Those men and women have disappeared, yet the few objects found buried in the archeological pit could disclose their mysteries to the present world. But will they?