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Millets aren’t just healthy, they could also hold the answer to food security challenges
Archaeologists say millets – largely used as birdseed in the West – are resilient crops and could help feed the world’s population.
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How PC Mahalanobis devised a survey that has helped India measure inequality for decades
Since Indian Independence in 1947, the National Sample Survey’s annual exercises have served as the backbone of planning.
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In a post-truth and alternative-fact world, how should we understand conspiracy theories?
In an environment of scepticism, it's difficult to draw the line between rational thinking and conspiracy thoerising.
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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View from Nepal: India’s reaction to new currency note betrays patronising outlook to its neighbour
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Contradictory documentary demands of CAA violate right to legal identity
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Memoir: Human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar recalls her understanding of feminism as a young woman
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Untangling history: What hair and hairstyles meant in 16th and 17th-century Europe
Historian Dr Stefan Hanß investigates how hair reflected the profound religious and social changes sweeping through the continent.
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How close are we to finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s?
It has been over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed.
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Peter Pan and Wendy: JM Barrie gave us a glimpse of how the mind works, before psychologists did
Key aspects of the Theory of Mind, a cognitive science, are explored in the Peter Pan books.
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Video
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Researchers in Colombia are trying to reimagine slums to foster equality
Poverty is either neglected or romanticised, find researchers. Instead, governments need to see slums as enabled spaces and equip them with infrastructure.
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No longer lost for words: How researchers rediscovered the mother of all mother tongues
Researchers have developed a method that uses sound waves to rediscover the long-lost Proto-Indo-European language, from which most modern languages evolved.
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How a British plan to convert an illiterate boy into a loyal maharaja failed
The British took a leading role in developing and overseeing educational programmes to produce an Indian elite politically aligned with the imperial rule.
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The Reel
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‘Murder in Mahim’ review: A crime as unjust as wrongful death
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‘Srikanth’ review: An inspiring tale of remarkable achievement
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ review: An animation legend rolls out enchantment and emotional resonance
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Watch: Politics, ambition and crime in Vasantha Balan’s ‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’
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The enduring influence of the fantasy film ‘Pathala Bhairavi’ on Telugu cinema
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Water world: Can we learn to live with flooding?
Can cities be designed and adapted to live more flexibly with water – to treat it as friend rather than foe?
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'Extreme sleepover #17' – going underground in search of zombies
Lucy Wrapson reports on her fieldwork analysing the curious cave paintings found on Isla de Mona, in the Caribbean, and their equally enigmatic artists.
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Walking and cycling good for health even in cities with higher levels of air pollution
In Delhi, people would need to cycle over five hours per week before the pollution risks outweigh the health benefits.
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The Field
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IPL 2024: Gill and Sudharsan’s tons help Gujarat beat Chennai and stay in playoff hunt
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Athletics, Doha Diamond League as it happened: Neeraj Chopra finishes second; Kishore Jena ninth
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Delhi court frames sexual harassment charges against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh
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Table Tennis, Saudi Smash: Manika Batra’s dream run ends in quarter-finals
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Athletics, Doha Diamond League 2024: Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena open season – All you need to know