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Resurgence Of Religion: Not Despite Modernisation But Because Of It

In his 1967 book, The Sacred Canopy, sociologist Peter Berger, famously argued that religion would decline and become redundant as the world modernised. Three decades later...

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Woman Who Debated With Buddha

Neelakesi proved that anybody can be a rishi, irrespective of birth A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a fascinating character, who serves as the focal point for a now lo...

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Trans People Would Love To Adopt As Shown In The Powerful Vicks Ad, But They Legally Can't

If you are among the ones, like yours truly, who got a little teary-eyed after watching the Vicks ad that surfaced on your Facebook timeline, you have company. There's a go...

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50 Years Ago This Week: How Birth Control Changed Everything

The subject of this week's cover story cost, as TIME noted, just 11 cents to make per unit—but, in the less than a decade of its existence, it had already "changed an...

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Aadirang Mahotsav: Fascinating peek into the Northeast

The National School of Drama, New Delhi and the Department of Culture, Government of Telangana brought the glorious tribal arts and culture of the seven sister states of no...

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The Unintended Consequences of Technology

An article of mine on the “Technologies of Taste” has just come out in Technology & Society, a publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics En...

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This Couple’s Stunning Documentaries Are Taking Space Dreams to Rural Kids in India

A complex, fascinating, and ever-evolving subject, astronomy encompasses mathematics and physical science, culture and history, myth and imagination, and more. It has been ...

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Love & War

Martin Cruz Smith is best known for his series of thriller featuring a fiercely upright Russian detective, Arkady Renko. The first book in the series was Gorky Park (1981),...

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When A Book Club Lends More Than Just Books

This story is part of an ongoing campaign called the Alphabet of Illiteracy. By using letters themselves—the foundation of reading and writing—Project Literacy ...

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Miami Jewish Film Festival Features Compelling Films

South Florida film buffs may appreciate the compelling features "1945" and "Harmonia," both screening during the 20th annual Miami Jewish Film Festival. The haunting Hungar...

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