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Cambridge and India have well over 100 collaborations and partnerships, many forged over decades, others more recently.

Venus transits the rising Sun

Mirage maker

30 Oct 2015

Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of...

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Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

29 Oct 2015

In 1879, a young Indian boy arrived in England from Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, sent by his father to receive a British education...

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mobile-mobile

Phone for a doctor

28 Oct 2015

Worried you might be at risk from diabetes? Check your phone: it might help stop you getting the disease. And if you already have diabetes? Your...

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Topography of Hindu Kush.

Earthquake rocks Afghanistan and Pakistan – an area prone to magnitude 7 quakes

27 Oct 2015

Professor Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan on October 26 and the geological...

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The city of Muzafarabad, Pakistan lays in ruins after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that hit the region.

Earthquakes without frontiers

26 Oct 2015

The Alpine–Himalayan belt, which stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. Now, a...

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Stills from the Kendall III film

A glimpse of India

26 Oct 2015

Kevin Greenbank, archivist at the Centre of South Asian Studies, explores the ways in which the home movie offers fascinating insights into the lives...

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Queuing to vote in India

A democratic cacophony

23 Oct 2015

India is home to one of the most vibrant, engaged and mystifying democracies on the planet. Cambridge academics, across a wide range of disciplines...

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Got milk? China joins the lactose lovers.

From Chinese milk to Indian chocolate, behind the world’s fast-expanding markets

21 Oct 2015

Khaled Soufani (Cambridge Judge Business School), Mark Esposito (Grenoble Ecole de Management and Harvard University) and Terence Tse (i7 Institute...

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Man with a Bouquet of Plastic Flowers (1976) by Bhupen Khakhar

Man with a Bouquet of Plastic Flowers

20 Oct 2015

Almost 40 years have passed since Bhupen Khakhar painted one of the most iconic paintings in the history of Indian modern art. Dr Devika Singh offers...

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Lonely tap

Not a drop to drink

19 Oct 2015

A major research collaboration is looking at how small towns in the hills of India and Nepal are coping with increasing demand for water: who wins...

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Charles Augustus Whitehouse's diary and souvenirs

The Sea-Pie and the sad sailor

16 Oct 2015

The idiosyncratic diaries of one man’s voyage from Liverpool to India, and the exquisite painted souvenirs he bought there, are among the treasures...

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India: Teaching Girls

Education that adds up

16 Oct 2015

We are in the midst of a “global learning crisis” according to UNESCO, with too many children worldwide learning little or nothing at school. A new...

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