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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
| Aarathi Prasad
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
| Apoorva SripathiCat O’Neil
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
| Alex Green
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
| Kate SummerscaleTim Robinson
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.