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India Abroad Person of the Year Awards 2013

United States President Barack Obama calls him one of his 'favourite people.'Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the legendary first female Supreme Court Justice in the US, says America is 'lucky as a......

Ram temple, English-bashing: BJP taking us back to 1998!

Amit Shah declared the party would build a ‘grand temple’ in Ayodhya. The gazillion new voters born after December 6, 1992, Googled ‘Ayodhya temple’ and decided that the......

How the Mughals changed India

'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier......

'Dharmashastras are the most vocal defenders of caste'

'Hindus are proud of what the Dharmashastras symbolise, but they don't want to do any work to preserve it!,' Sanskrit scholar Donald Davis tells Kanika Dutta.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Murty's $5.2 m grant for Harvard's Indian series

Three years from now, when the Harvard University Press, a major publisher of nonfiction, scholarly and general interest books, marks its 100th anniversary, it will also publish the first book in......

Asean: Wise to take the culture route

Manmohan Singh faced stiff competition in Singapore. No, not at the East Asia Summit or in meetings with the Asean. But the rival attractions of two imaginative exhibitions on India's past and an......

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India Abroad Person of the Year Awards 2013

Ram temple, English-bashing: BJP taking us back to 1998!

How the Mughals changed India

'Dharmashastras are the most vocal defenders of caste'

Murty's $5.2 m grant for Harvard's Indian series

Asean: Wise to take the culture route

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