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Cambridge and India have well over 100 collaborations and partnerships, many forged over decades, others more recently.

Venus transits the rising Sun

Mirage maker

30 Oct 2015
Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of...
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mobile-mobile

Phone for a doctor

28 Oct 2015
Worried you might be at risk from diabetes? Check your phone: it might help stop you getting the disease. And if you already have diabetes? Your phone...
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The city of Muzafarabad, Pakistan lays in ruins after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that hit the region.

Earthquakes without frontiers

26 Oct 2015
The Alpine–Himalayan belt, which stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. Now, a...
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Stills from the Kendall III film

A glimpse of India

26 Oct 2015
Kevin Greenbank, archivist at the Centre of South Asian Studies, explores the ways in which the home movie offers fascinating insights into the lives...
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Queuing to vote in India

A democratic cacophony

23 Oct 2015
India is home to one of the most vibrant, engaged and mystifying democracies on the planet. Cambridge academics, across a wide range of disciplines...
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