Pankaj Sekhsaria finds out why handloom is viable

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Karl Marx looks set to meet Broadway and Las Vegas. Das Kapital is being adapted into a musical in Shanghai to show

For a Cold War after-dinner television drama, Twelve Angry Men has travelled unusually far. Set in a hot, stuffy New York courthouse, the play focuses on a jury deliberating the fate of an 18-year-old accused of patricide. The script was made into the now-classic film starring Henry Fonda. The parable for America

There is new courtship ritual in Haryana. Villages in the state have recently been plastered with a slogan

In Korean folklore

Few states illustrate the socio-economic faultlines of India like Orissa

There was a man in a gorilla suit, Ethiopian campaigners, socialist workers and green activists. On April 2 and 3, as leaders of the G20 discussed ways to extricate the world out of the financial rut, pressure-washers were turned on Wellington

To lives of elusive giant octopuses and squids seafarers

Plant extract used in traditional medicine controls colon cancer THE root of the licorice plant (mulethi in Hindi) is used to treat sore throat, ulcers and eczema. New research suggests it may have a greater use-prevent the growth of cancer of the colon, the last section of the digestive system. Scientists found the compound that imparts the sweet taste to licorice, glycyrrhyzic acid