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Einstein’s revealing letters auctioned for $420,625
News East west NEW YORK: Over two dozen letters hand-written by the world’s most famous scientist Albert Einstein, whose theories led to the development of the atomic bomb, were auctioned for over $420,000 by California-based auction house Profiles in History. Purchased by various bidders, the letters – 27 in all – were written by Einstein…
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Canada subjected 150,000 Native children to cultural genocide
News East West TORONTO: Denigrating the Indian education system and favouring the `superior’ English education system for colonial India, Lord Macaulay in his `Minutes of Indian Education’ in 1835 said, “…English is better worth knowing than Sanskrit or Arabic; that the natives are desirous to be taught English, and are not desirous to be taught…