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...
Jolly LLB: Little justice in this legal tale
Subhash Kapoor’s “Jolly LLB”, about a small-town lawyer who dreams of fame and wealth but develops a conscience along the way, is the film version of the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” From More...
Natco, Cipla gain after Supreme Court dismisses Novartis petition
Mon Apr 1, 2013 4:33pm IST Reuters Market Eye – Shares in Natco Pharma and Cipla gain after the Supreme Court dismissed Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG’s petition seeking patent for its cancer drug Glivec. In More...
IOC to cut petrol prices by a rupee from Tuesday
REUTERS – Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS), the country’s biggest refiner, will cut petrol prices by a rupee from Tuesday as global prices of the fuel have declined and the rupee has marginally strengthened More...
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Gail signs deal with Dominion for U.S. natural gas
A man stands guard at the Ratnagiri Gas and Power in Guhagar Village, about 600 km (373 miles) from [Mumbai] in this April 11, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Files NEW YORK | Mon Apr 1, 2013 10:08pm IST (Reuters) – 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...
Third Wave West 1: Fertile Crescent of Mathematics
After the first two waves out of India to Eurasia and Europe, there was a third wave roughly 5000 years ago that carried mathematical ideas to West Asia and Egypt, eventually reaching Greece. This westward movement More...
Dhimmitude: Historical Consequences of Jihad
Islamic conquests resulted in a multitude of second-class citizens known as Dhimmis and a state of mind called ‘dhimmitude’. It is characterized by victims of Jihad going into denial and flatter their tormentors. Book 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...
