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A new Mark Twain book is out, 107 years after his death. But who wrote it?

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The erotic in the Indian imagination: A conflict between the romantics and the traditionalists

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The 'Arthaśāstra' is a manual of statecraft. It is neither a Hindu nor a moral treatise

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