A rare inheritance

Blueprints>> Polar Expedition • The UK

Saving bite

Auction>> Biscuit • UK

New coffee house chain by Coke

Landmark control

BOOK LOVER'S DELIGHT

Wall II

Words of the times

Dictionary>> New terms ÔÇó the UK

Social ants and social humans

Book>> The social conquest of earth• by Edward O Wilson • Liveright publications • Rs 1,040

Trials at sea

Book>> Round about the earth • by Joyce E Chaplin • Simon & Schuster • Rs 1,850

Temples of irrigation and land management

From the 9th century to the 16th century, south Indian kingdoms did not have irrigation or public works departments. Temples were given the job …

Tracing a path from the sun

Present-day interest in solar power has arisen mainly because of rapidly dwindling energy resources. But the quest for tapping the sun's energy …

Origin of Darwin

Book>> Darwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond and James Moore Allen Lane, London Price 25

From the wick to the bulb

BOOK>> BRILLIANT, THE EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT • Jane Brox • Houghton Miffin Harcourt • `1,000

A scholar among bureaucrats

BOOK>> HEAD COUNT, MEMOIRS OF A DEMOGRAPHER • by Ashis Bose • Penguin • `450

‘Equality is no longer in our vision of society’

Historian Romila Thapar speaks to Rajat Ghai

A neglected genius

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard …

What’s in a surname

Culture>> Family Name • Tajikistan/Russia

Letter to Iraq

Broadside>>Books • Iraq

Racial undertones

Movie>> Cultural Bias • Italy

Not on TV

Culture>> Television Ban • Tajikistan

Bring back the staple

Campaign>> BREAD • France

Clash of cyber biggies

APP>> YOUTUBE • Cyberspace

Whose morality?

Museum>> Art ÔÇó Ukrain

Children’s tongue

Language>> Children • Australia