As the eldest child, I had the run of the house. One great pleasure was rummaging through the collection of old books and magazines. Some...

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As the eldest child, I had the run of the house. One great pleasure was rummaging through the collection of old books and magazines....

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It was a rainy afternoon. But my friend Sanjay Zaveri insisted that I and my wife, should accompany him to see a film called Roja. He...

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Figure courtesy IPP Garching In early 1951, Argentine President Juan Perón made a startling claim that a group of scientists under his...

We were driving back from the shop. The car had passed through the campus and entered the road leading to my house. Then I saw the dog...