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On the rocks for a century

Whiskey bottle >> History • Antarctica

A chip to block

Kitchen gadgets

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

Not-so-organic fests

Literature fests have spread all over the subcontinent, like an epidemic

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Assam and its notion of nationhood

Book>> Empire’s Garden: Assam And The Making Of India •by Jayeeta Sharma • Permanent Black • Rs 695

The ancient mariners

Book>> Beyond The Blue Horizon • by Brian Fagan • US $10 • Bloomsbury

Relevance of history

History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we …

History’s keepsake

Auction>>History • UK

Ape and human cast

Fossils>> Dinosaur • The UK/South Africa

A different muse

Earliest jigsaw

Evolution basics

Evolution>> The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins Random Books, Indian Price Rs 450

Nazi's industrial jackal

Bayer, Hoechst and BASF participated in Nazi crimes

Tweet for trouble

Twitter>> Privacy • US/UK

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Bread and games in India

The world the slaves built

After the recent earthquake, Haiti is depicted as a basket case. It was not always so

From streets to cyberspace

Social Media>> Politics • Azerbaijan

‘Indian vegetarians do not eat vegetables’

Food historian and physician Manoshi Bhattacharya explains how the diet of Indians have changed over centuries

Noteworthy

Santhal trio pulls right strings to keep alive a dying tradition

Dragon lands on ostrich egg

GLOBE>> HISTORY • Austria

Oldest calendar

Calendar>> Archaeology• The UK

Bhutan: Pursuit of happiness

Karma Tshiteem is the secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission, the novel name of Bhutan’s Planning Commission. He tells Aditya …