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How to Think About a Kiss
Let us begin by picturing a couple in a cafe at eleven o’clock on a Saturday night in a large city, eating ice cream after seeing a film together. There is doubtless a biological explanation for the sexual excitement this couple are feeling, connected to an unconscious narrative about reproduction and genetics, but the man…
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Tibet and China’s Contrasting Narratives
No struggle in the world is as unequal as the one between Tibet and China. Beijing’s position in Tibet is unassailable, reinforced by a network of all-weather roads, airports and an expanding railway line that are integrating the world’s highest, largest and remotest plateau more closely to the mainland. China uses its economic weight to…
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How to Read a Book
How to read a book? The question seems easy; fairly obvious, in fact. You pick a book and start reading it. Of course, this works only if you are a literate person, otherwise it can be a bit of nightmare. But… if we go back to the question and give it a deep thought, we…
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Understanding Meditation
Meditation is a vast subject and there have been many developments throughout the ages and many variations among the different religious traditions. But broadly speaking the basic character of meditation takes one of two forms. The first stems from the teachings which are concerned with the discovery of the nature of existence; the second concerns…
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The Story of South-Asian Muslims
As with the Muslim world more widely, the single most important thing to understand about patterns both of Muslim history and of Muslim consciousness in South Asia is the tremendous rise of Muslim power up to the seventeenth century, and its steep decline thereafter. Before 1947, the glorious history of Muslim rule and cultural achievement…
