(...) in the pages of The Harappa Files you’ll find references to everything from products of the past (Boroline, Vicco Vajradanti, Bullworker and Lifebuoy soap) to a likely future (the Nano). You’ll see signs of the unchanging nature of Indian life (the swish new buildings that have much in common with the crumbling relics of yore — for instance, no plumbing blueprints, and the story of scientist JC Bose who demonstrated wireless telegraphy two years before Marconi did but who was done out of the Nobel Prize because news of his discovery arrived late thanks to bureaucratic delays). And you’ll relate to life as it is today (the landlady who regulates every aspect of her tenants’ lives).