THIRD WAVE WEST 2: FROM LANGUAGE TO THOUGHT
The third wave 5000 years ago carried mathematics, horse training skills as well as names of deities, sacred symbols like svasti, and practices like yoga and meditation, to West Asia and Europe. This was accompanied More...
Film on Delhi gang rape to help change mindset
By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA | Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:19pm IST (Reuters) – A Bengali film-maker inspired by the December protests over the gang rape of a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist in New Delhi is hoping More...
Chinese factories rise but U.S. manufacturing slows
Report by Steven C. Johnson and Koh Gui Qing | NEW YORK/BEIJING | Mon Apr 1, 2013 9:05pm IST: (Reuters) – Strong demand at home boosted activity at Chinese factories last month, but U.S. manufacturing More...
‘Historian Romila Thapar’s Dogmas’
Column by Dr. Vijaya Rajiva Romila Thapar has entered her 80s and the favourite historian of Indian Marxist circles and as well the feted and decorated icon of certain sections of the international scholarly jet More...
Pakistan is crumbling, Is India Prepared?
Reports from Pakistan indicate that institutions of the state are heading for collapse. The Indian leadership represented by the inept troika of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul seems indifferent, concerned about protecting More...
Owaisi’s rant: Provocative Politics or Everlasting Hatred?
Its politics and provocation are rooted in the delusion that Muslims were the original rulers of India and the British stole the country from them and handed it to the infidel Hindus. The complete silence of Sonia More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets
Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...
Failure to launch: Singapore start-ups struggle to woo investors
Report by A. Ananthalakshmi, SINGAPORE | Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:11pm EST (Reuters) – Singapore’s decade-long push to become a hotbed for entrepreneurs is stuck at stage one. Thumbdrive design sketches More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 2: NATURAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGES
All non-African humans and their languages can be traced to about a thousand individuals in South Asia 60,000 years ago. Two events during the Ice Age, a gene mutation and a major natural catastrophe played a pivotal More...
