Archaeologist Pallavee Gokhale, who has been studying Indus artefacts and the scholarship around the script, says attempts to decipher the Indus script have always been shaped by the intellectual and historical context of the time. He found himself drawn towards Indian culture and history and consequently found a passion project in the Indus script. He says, “As a student, I have time and can spend time on leisurely activities like the Indus script.” Since 2008, the two have built one of the largest databases of the Indus script, comprising 30 tables and 1.4 million data points. UK-based Indus archaeologist Adam Green argues that the Indus script can be understood only in the backdrop of the archaeological context in which it appears.