Taliban threats to disrupt the polls notwithstanding, voting for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections concluded on 18 September with less violence than anticipated. Though there were over 300 reports of
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The vehemence of the caste councils of North India against same-clan marriages have to do with the control of high-value real estate land and inheritance rights.
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Gardens of Lanka
photography by Luxshmanan Nadaraja
edited by Sarala Fernando
Wildlight Private Limited, 2009
Gardens have embellished Sri Lanka's landscape for more than two millennia, the ancient
There was a time when saying that you liked 'to quiz' – pitting one's knowledge base against other quizzers – was dangerous. People would harangue you about finding
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