Dark shades of art

Galleries>> Corruption • UK/Tajikstan

Trial becomes comic

COMIC>> BRADLEY MANNING • USA

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Elephanta caves: Re-carving the old magic

Working for over eight months at a stretch, the Wadars tibals arrive at Elephanta Island to recreate the old magic of the caves by breaking …

Bead's eye view

Glass beads reveal ancient Indian Ocean trade networks

Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

America’s frozen aid

A commodity from their former colony kept the English cool in 19th century India

Kremlin on Tartar sweet

Sweet cruelty

Sugar plantations were run by African slaves who were tortured, but they also revolted against their masters

Temples of doom

The Mayans penchant for building places of worship brought their downfall

The Ice Story

Amit Shanker talks about a random photograph that helped him reveal how Americans kept British cool.

A web around the corrupt

Website>> Politics ÔÇó Kenya

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Loneliness of Narmada Human

Thirty years on, it remains the only fossil of early humans found on the subcontinent

India is many, not one; has assimilated ideas from everywhere: Upcoming report

Experts on genetics, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and history will prepare a 600-page report on 12,000 years of India’…

Hanging by a thread

Weavers of renowned Ponduru khadi are abandoning the craft

Colonial straitjacket

Book>> Becoming India Western Himalayas under British Rule by Aniket Alam Foundation Books, Delhi 2008

Public domain is not elementary, Sherlock

The Sherlock Holmes case highlights the stranglehold of copyright laws in the US

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

Green lore

Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that …

Science and Technology - Briefs

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

South Asia

Science & Technology - Briefs

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