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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...

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Elizabeth George has written forty-four books, of which twenty are novels of criminal and psychological suspense featuring Scotland...

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An international scandal involving a vast intra-European traffic in medical waste originating from France and culminating in eventual ...

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The river, in reality, a canal dug up to connect the Meenachil River to the boat jetty at Kacherikadavu, flows near my ancestral house...

While living in Bopal, a suburb of Ahmedabad, I had to take a long journey, almost an hour, from my home to Gandhinagar, where I had...

I have always had a fascination for words and the images they evoke. I like poetry because of the images created by clever and careful...