by Our Defence Correspondent ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he, today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.’ – William Shakespeare The process of
From parasitic worms and disease-carrying insects to the intimate partnerships between fungi, algae and the human microbiome, two books reviewed by Nature explore how every species exists within a web of biological
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The release of Under the Red Triangle by Susil Hettiarachchi, former General Secretary of the Dehiwala YMCA, could hardly have come at a more symbolic moment. As more than 1,300 delegates gathered
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As borders become easier to cross for those with wealth, citizenship itself has become part of a growing global marketplace. Countries are increasingly offering passports and residency rights to investors, creating new
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There is something quietly radical about Amy Coney Barrett’s Listening to the Law, although many readers—both admirers and critics—may fail to notice it. Published after one of the most polarising judicial confirmations
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by Durga Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Trump’s Ten Commandments arrives with the air of a field manual masquerading as analysis, a taxonomy of power distilled into ten stark “rules” that purport to decode Donald
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Wasantha Karannagoda, The Turning Point: The Naval Role in Sri Lanka’s War on LTTE Terrorism. India Penguin: New Delhi, p.412., ISBN: 978-0143469292 Numerous scholarly articles and monographs have examined the decisive military
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Philippe Sands’s 38 Londres Street is ostensibly an investigation into two notorious men—Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff—but its deeper subject is something far more unsettling: the astonishing durability of impunity. Sands has
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by Luxman It is an early twentieth-century work by Edward Gait, first published in 1926, shaped by the intellectual and imperial assumptions of its time. A History of Assam is not simply a regional
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by Eric McNamara at War: A New History, written by Philip Taubman and William Taubman, is not merely another biography of Robert S. McNamara, nor is it a conventional re-litigation of the
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by Eric How did the world’s most advanced economy allow its crown jewels to slip quietly into the hands of a strategic rival? When did free trade mutate into a one-way transfer
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