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By Hugo Barcia and Neeshu Shukla New Delhi, Mar 14 (EFE).- The first recorded numerical figures were by the Sumerians more than 5,000 years ago, but the most significant of them, zero, took much longer to come into existence and did so in India, as per the oldest records on the subject. To find the …
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BOOK REVIEW: HISTORY
COLLAGE: Sarah Anjum Bari
Humanity has always had an ambivalent relationship with knowledge. While the written word has changed from being recorded on papyrus to tablets, scrolls, ink-ridden bindings to printed books all the way to electronic screens, it has been handled apprehensively by power structures, if only for its impact on societies and individuals. Consequently, book burnings have featured recurrently in the discourses of nation-states and empires: Nazi burnings of texts written by un-German authors homosexuals, socialists, and of course Jewish writers in Germany are among the most infamous examples. Richard Ovenden s
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard University Press, 2020) is a vivid catalogue of the destruction of libraries and archives, purges of librarians and intellectuals, self-censorship, and the current threat posed to knowledge by a handful of big data firms.