2019-2020
Indus River Delta, Sindh, Pakistan
Installation + Book
It is a story of two mightiest Rig-Vedic Rivers Sindhu (Indus) and Sarasvati (Ghaggar-Hakra), the one which has disappeared and the other which is currently endangered.
On one hand, Sabah Saeed’s research is looking into the relation of the current threat to the Indus river from climate change. On the other hand, she investigates the role of technology to find out reasons for the disappearance of Sarasvati, its actual location and its link to the decline of Harappan Civilization. The technological advancements in the fields of Geology and Archaeology including remote sensing helped geologists to find out more accurate results, which is changing the information about the past. In the case of Pakistan and India, this changing information could lead to controversies because of their religious and socio-political interests. Historically, the political interest has been influencing scientific research, which creates space for interventions to analyze information from multiple perspectives. Sabah Saeed’s interest to intervene is to take the story of Sarasvati from past to future and to speculate further so that the end of the story in case of Indus could be different.