It also follows that plagiarism is endemic and integral to academic worlds; and that professionals plagiarise in ways that they will get away with. The
Though not in deliberate imitation, the new clothes advocated by the dress reformers were much similar to that of men’s more user-friendly and comfortable pants-like
This would have made no difference to Paul Robeson, when he chose to sing the song. He was comfortable with the work of Dvořák; he
The game seems to involve politics, philosophy, death and even warfare, amongst other prerogatives, leading to the pride and emotions associated with various nations. In
We are talking about the news readers of Doordarshan, India's only public service broadcaster. They had a huge fan base and ruled our mindscape from
That’s the basic problem: we identify ‘our’ heroes in the past, and identify our present and future with lessons we apparently draw from them. That’s
40,000 years ago, primitive artists who painted murals on cave walls and stony outcrops invented the first pigments from easily available resources; a selection of
‘Dreadlocks’ were not, in fact, from North America, nor were they from the ‘original’ African cultures that former slaves were forced to forget in American
Kolkata’s innumerable freshwater and salt-water bodies, if we cherish, manage, and protect, will play a vital role in mitigating our tenuous climate future These wetlands
The second city of the Empire was ever growing, more and more people were moving into it for opportunities not only from overseas but from
These events had a lasting effect on Pandit Vidyasagar. On the one hand, even though he was not a qualified physician, his erudition helped him
But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be
This voyage will start from the old Fairlie Warehouse that houses an impressive collection of documents chronicling the city’s history. It will include a visit
I can read 'Hindi'; I can speak bad Hindi if I am allowed to disregard all rules of gender; and I can write it if
Toru Dutt with her sister Oru (brother Abuj had already succumbed to tuberculosis at a very early age) along with their parents travelled to France.
Among the dozens of festivals Indians celebrate every year, Holi stands out as one that has the least quota of scriptures and the maximum dosage
