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A Pioneering Indian Space Odyssey and Mister Rogers...
To the uninitiated, a knit cardigan would hold no import.
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An Olympian and a City Lament...
“Then war came and everything changed.
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Library Lessons For India-Pakistan, Centre-States...
The American town of Derby (in Vermont) and the Canadian town of Stanstead (in Québec), share a unique distinction.
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A Beetle’s Fate for the Repairability Index?
“The people’s car” is the approximate translation of the German automobile manufacturer, “Volkswagen”.
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Xenon Clouded India-Pakistan Conflict?
When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 (effectively becoming the first people to scale the famed height) it was…
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China and Jo March: Kindred Spirits?
American writer Louisa May Alcott’s name is often said in the same breath as that of her most acclaimed novel, Little Women. Published in 1868, it was…
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An Austen Commentary on Pahalgam?
I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself.
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The Darjeeling Express Makes a Stop at the PGP...
"There was no roadmap in front of me.
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A Wind in the American-Chinese Willows?
While 1909 was the year that marked the end of US President Theodore Roosevelt’s term as president, it was incidentally the same year that he penned a…
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Now Docking at Pier 21: The US-China Trade War?
In March 1928, the city of Halifax in Nova Scotia boasted a new addition to its harbour front: a facility that was known as Pier 21.
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An Indian Thought Experiment...By Way of Bamako?
In 1978, at the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles (a school for visually impaired youth) in Southern Mali, a tale as old as time unfolded.
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And There Was A Great Calm: An Armistice in the Black Sea...
“Breathless they paused.
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A Persephone-ian Great Power Show
The scene begins much like any pastoral scene in a staid novel.
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A Paigham From a Deep-Sea Mollusc…
In February 2000, Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Dr.
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