A small victory for art

Gag orders checked

Death of Venice

What about l?

Digging its own grave

Despite its glorious past, the future of the Archaeological Survey of India is jeopardised because of internal wrangling and a lack of a concrete …

Population prompts progress

The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional

Nuclear nemesis

Russian scientists confess to dumping atomic waste near major rivers to hide their Cold War sins

Shifting under a colonial past

A Myanmarese shifting cultivation technique, once perverted by British colonisers to maximise teak exploitation, is still valued for its benefits

Close encounters with mummies

Museum>> History • Sweden

Clinical historian

Satellite images>> Archaeology • Egypt/US

The perfect brew

Chartbusters 28,000 BCE

Simon Schama’s history of 18th and 19th century disease outbreaks speaks powerfully to the present

At the core of Foreign Bodies is Schama’s understanding that “all history is natural history”

Savage people

Human zoos were aids to anthropologists, scientists and racial theorists in 19th century

Modi’s new ‘deviant’ lion capital: What is it emblematic of anyway?

Scholars find metal-casting atop new Parliament building different from what Nandalal Bose painstakingly created

Skeleton service

Exhibition>> Cadavers • London

Gay omission

Dictionary >> Homosexuals • China

Breaking bread

Festival>> Food • Cuba

The oldest dot

Paintings>> History • Spain

Saving the tongue

Language>> Nomads • Nepal

Return of the headdress

Archaeology>> Aztec Community • Mexico/Austria

Mein Kampf, with disclaimer

Book>> NAZISM • Germany

Literature in bondage

Books>> TALIBANISATION • Pakistan

Prized Indian teachers

Language>> English • Algeria/India

Facelift

Photographs >> Crime • Mexico