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| Uncertain ancestries |
| Who are the Indians? |
| There are many similarities between Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages like Greek and Latin. But the similarity does not extend to the people who speak them. Europeans are taller and fairer, and often have blue eyes and blonde hair, whereas I... |
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| Food for thought |
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Sir — In “Small change, big move” (July 5), Tapas Majumdar has dealt with a subject of vital contem ... |
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| Danger signals |
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Sir — As Bhaskar Dutta points out in “Hint of new dangers” (July 8), the post-recession world econo ... |
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| Happy secret |
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Sir — The engagement and marriage of the Indian cricket captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and his chil ... |
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| FLAG AND CLUB |
| Any World Cup final that saw as many as 14 yellow cards given out by the referee cannot claim to have presented top-class foo...|
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| SMALL POOL |
| Justice is not easy to achieve; neither does it allow for shortcuts. The government of Orissa has decided to impose condition...|
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| When Violence Is Legal |
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One had to pinch oneself when one read that the cabinet had decided to set up a committee — a group of ministers — to examine... | Read.. |
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| Dangerous liaisons |
| The recent bombing of Data Darbar, a Sufi shrine in Lahore, is no less tragic than the bombing of two Ahmadi mosques in May that killed almost the same number of people in the... |
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| The minority question |
| More than 150 Muslims were killed in the Jos region of Nigeria in January this year, leading to fresh riots, killing hundreds more in the following months. The remains of almo... |
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. — SIR JULIAN HUXLEY
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