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One country, one science syllabus

Common maths, science syllabus to help students crack IIT-JEE, PMT

A row over Cuneiform

The dying kitchen story

Book>> Cooked: A Natural History Of Transformation • by Michael Pollan • Penguin • Rs 1,400

The world of french fries and potato salad

The potato, native to South America, invaded England in 1588, the year Elizabeth I's devil-may-care sea-dogs vanquished the Spanish Armada. It …

Stepping into the past

Indigenous artefacts unearthed in Australia

Van Gogh's oeuvre

150-year old sound

The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age

A travelogue with that good human epoch in mind, a trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as …

Frontiers of Environment: Issues in Medieval and Early Modern India

The complex nature of environmental history and debates on environmental issues have related primarily to contemporary times.

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

The Matter of History argues that three powerful things - cattle, silkworms, and copper - helped to drive these previously diverse nations …

Where have all the Indians gone?

Until we shed our communal, regional and caste identities, the quintessential Indian will remain a rare species

All the hair in place, just in time

Examining hair fibres could help determine when South Americans graduated from hunting vicunas to herding llamas

In the past lies the future

From being a romantic quest for treasures and lost civilisations, archaeology has now come down to earth, increasingly associated with …

Timeless pursuits

A new interpretation of texts from a civilisation that flourished 1,000 years ago reveals its uncanny similarity with modern times

Earth’s early evolution: Fresh insights from rocks formed 3.5 billion years ago

Singhbhum Craton’s unique geological features, including its greenstone belts, provide invaluable information about Earth’s surface …

Keeping the music alive

Tradition>> Museum • Turkmenistan

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On the rocks for a century

Whiskey bottle >> History • Antarctica

Thinking ahead

A chip to block

Kitchen gadgets

Book>> Consider The Fork • By Bee Wilson • Basic Books • Rs 500