एकशिंग्या सिंधू संस्कृतीमधील बागेत....James Thurber, Satyajit Ray and The Indus Valley Civilisation

Jorge Luis Borges, “The Modesty of History”:

“A Chinese prose writer has observed that the unicorn, because of its own anomaly, will pass unnoticed. Our eyes see what they are accustomed to seeing.” 

जेम्स थर्बर या महान कलावंताने 'The Unicorn in the Garden' या नावाची गोष्ट द न्यू यॉर्कर मध्ये १९३९ मध्ये प्रसिद्ध केली. त्याची नंतर ऍनिमेशन फिल्म झाली: १९५३.

युनिकॉर्न हे नाव सिंधू संस्कृतीशी निगडीत आहे...

“...A puzzling, one-horned animal is very frequently depicted on the seals (over 60 per cent of the Mohenjo-daro seals and around 46 per cent of the Harappan), and is also modelled in several one-horned terracotta figurines (from Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro). It is generally termed a ‘unicorn’, a creature legendarily associated with India by ancient Greek writers; its zoological identity, if it actually existed, is much debated....” (Andrew Robinson , ‘The Indus: lost civilizations’, 2015)

शिवाय सत्यजित रे यांचा ह्या सगळ्याशी संबंध असा:

 “...About the aesthetic quality of the Indus seals there is virtual unanimity. Wheeler’s admiration has already been mentioned. Marshall considered the best seals to be ‘distinguished by a breadth of treatment and a feeling for line and plastic form that has rarely been surpassed in glyptic art’. Piggott – no admirer of Indus aesthetics, as we know – nonetheless conceded that the seals were ‘frequently carved with a brilliant sureness of touch’. Independent India’s great artist Satyajit Ray – a graphic designer and illustrator who became a writer and celebrated film director – was so enchanted by the seals that he wrote a short story inspired by the ‘unicorn’. Speaking for myself, I first became interested in the Indus civilization after seeing its seals...” (ibid)

(Ray’s  ‘Ek Shringo Abhijan’, adventure of Professor Shonku:

“Shonku goes to Tibet, to find out about a Unicorn which is reported to be seen there. In the adventure, Shonku discovers a place where everybody's dreams come true... a Utopia.”)

(बहुदा) पत्नी, उठवले गेल्याबद्दल प्रचंड चिडलेली : "एकशिंग्या हा पौराणिक (mythical) प्राणी आहे"