This was followed by a piece in Swarajya which calls the India Today article a propaganda piece and then goes on to examine the “non-evidence” presented in the earlier article. The article says “I am not sure if the authors of the soon-to-be-published paper, Prof Vasant Shinde and Dr Neeraj Rai, among others, have made the unqualified, sweeping claim that the Harappans were closer to present-day South Indians than North Indians, based on the genetic analysis of DNA from a few skeletons, as the author of the India Today article, Kai Friese, has done”. We are not sure if Swarajya tried to contact the authors of the Rakhigarhi study or they did but got no reply. The article does not say anything about this. The irony of two “news” sites sticking to their beliefs and debating science without evidence would have been funny if it weren’t so tragic. Then we have Scroll publishing a long-form article supporting India Today’s conclusion. What do they base their conclusions on? At this point for sheer self-preservation, lest our brain circuits malfunction, we stopped trying to make sense of these articles – once again…….where is the data!!