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Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

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A history of sex for sale

Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.

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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India

Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.

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  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
  • Christ healing sick people in the temple. Engraving by C. Heath, 1822, after B. West.
  • Palmyra, Syria: west door of the temple of Bel (temple of the sun). Engraving by J.B. Reville and P.G. Berthault after L.F. Cassas.
  • Combaconum: the holy tank at the Shiva temple in Combaconum, south west view. Watercolour by an Indian painter.
  • Interior of the western colonnade of a Temple at Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia.
  • King George III analysing the residue from a large glass retort containing a small figure; representing the English view of Napoleon. Coloured aquatint by T. West, 1803.
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