Making theater out of historical tragedy is a difficult balancing act. Too much focus on a small-scale human story can belittle terrible acts of war or genocide taking place in the background, making them seem merely metaphorical exteriorizations of the characters' stormy inner lives. The vast genre of slushy WWII dramas manifests this peril[...] Full story
One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island. Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of "Bo," was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese tribe, R.C. Kar, deputy director of Tribal Health in Andaman, said Friday[...] Full story
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