A. R. Rahman wins Japan’s Fukuoka Prize

    Tara Sattar A R Rahman has won Japan’s Fukuoka Prize to add to his numerous collections of awards and honors. He won the award on Monday this week for his marvelous contribution to the Asian music, according to a report published in ANI. This prestigious award was won previously by prominenet musicians like sitarist Ravi…

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      Making better humans

      Samiul Bashar Samin For centuries, human hereditary improvement was a problem in social, not biological, engineering: how to persuade or coerce people into marrying to benefit the population as a whole. The obvious analogy was to agriculture and animal husbandry. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates says that only the best citizens would be allowed to mate,…

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