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Business Standard
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Learning about the Other: The Cave of Echoes swims with own pair of fins
The book operates much like a magic mirror where the glass reflects, not the object, but the viewer's gaze on the object Arundhuti Dasgupta Listen to This Article The Cave of Echoes: Stories about Gods, Animals and Other Strangers Published by Speaking Tiger 225 pages ₹599 The impulse to tell a good story is universal and eternal. Nomadic hordes, early settlers, kings, and commoners — everyone has always loved a good yarn. Myths and folktales that survive to this day were the elixir the ancient world sipped. These stories that the ancients once told still burn bright, holding large crowds in thrall, churning up new ideas, and driving new discoveries about early human existence. How does one explain their timeless power? Several writers have written eloquently on the
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Business Standard
13-06-2025
- Science
- Business Standard
Proto: Laura Spinney's new book explores the journey of global PIE
Beyond the hypotheses of origin and its subsequent demise and immortalisation, there is a huge world of learning for anyone looking to understand the evolution of languages and even, humankind premium Arundhuti Dasgupta Listen to This Article Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global By Laura Spinney Published by Harper Collins 342 pages ₹599 Across the ancient world, a powerful sky god once ruled supreme. Some ancient stories tell us that the universe emerged from him, others say that he was responsible for its creation with his partner, the Earth mother. The sky god, known by many names and whose identity morphed into many gods over time, spawned an army of minor and major gods and held the universe together with his shining eye and staff, or a lightning bolt and hammer or any other such divine accessory. He was
