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History lessons by Lake Pichola

Get up close with Udaipur’s royal past, its art and architecture at the City Palace museum, writes Chitra Swaminathan




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Desika's haven of peace on the other side of the cauvery

This year the Vedanta Desika festival will be celebrated on November 13 in Satyagalam, Karnataka.





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Literary treat for festival

Tamil magazines mark Deepavali with special colourful editions.





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In the land before time

We take a peek into the birthplace of German watchmaking to see what keeps the horologists ticking with clockwork precision.




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A House for Mr. Rao



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When the Fort came alive

In a first of its kind, Kuchipudi dancers performed at the historic Golconda Fort to recreate the tales of the Fort and Telangana.




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A shrine of his dreams

The story behind Lakshmi Varahar temple in Ayilangudi.




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Who can study the Vedas?

As an icon of equality, Ramanuja embraced the whole of humanity.




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An eighth century wonder at Kamakura

Lakshmi Venkatraman says the main deity at the Hasedera temple is made of single piece of camphor wood.




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Sanskrit for the modern times

Dr. S. Ramaratnam explains the relevance of the language




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Heritage at your doorstep

The Museum on Wheels, a successful CSMVS initiative, has been bringing history to a wider circle of children and young adults




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On 'kaniyan koothu', an art form dedicated to the graveyard god

Sudalai Madan was banished to earth after it was discovered that he preferred eating human flesh to divine nectar




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Cash-strapped Archaeology Department takes MGNREGA route for upkeep of monuments in Karnataka

The proposed initiative will cover the protected and unprotected sites in Karnataka, most of which lack even a fence, so as to prevent encroachment




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The cheetah that loved Hyderabadi biryani

Nobility showed off their pet cheetahs and posed for photographs before and after hunts; for the British, they defined India’s exotic wildlife




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Why everyone is talking about the Big Temple 

Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan has brought this Chola architectural marvel under the spotlight once again



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Pulluvanpattu musician Jayakumar Gopinath says he considers it his responsibility to keep his father’s legacy alive

Jayakumar Gopinath talks about Pulluvanpattu, the ritualistic art form of Kerala that sings songs for the snake gods, and how his community is trying to preserve it




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A musical ode to Faiz’s only poem on Partition 

Amira and Vasundhara explore Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poem ‘Subh-e-Azadi’ in a sonic landscape of traditional ragas and electronically modified sounds




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All roads lead to Kanchi

The iconic Garuda Sevai takes place today (June 2, 2023)




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When Germany’s Humboldt Forum museum turned into a venue for East-West musical experiment

Veena exponent Jayanthi Kumaresh recalls how she and violinist Kala Ramnath, along with European musicians, explored the beauty of Baroque music




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How Madhusudanan Kalaichelvan’s passion for heritage is opening new doors to the past

Apart from researching into temple history, Madhusudhanan Kalaichelvan has been creating awareness about heritage and architecture through specially-curated trips



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Listening to classical music inside India’s oldest theatre

Founded in 1887 and designed by British architect Henry Irwin, the Gaiety Theatre in Shimla was the venue of the recent Parampara aur Viraasat Utsav




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How Madras was described in bhakti poetry

How different localities of the city find mention in the Tevaram, Pasurams and Tiruppugazh




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Vysakhi Nriyotsav, a three-day dance festival, begins in Visakhapatnam on September 15

The three-day festival organised by Nataraj Music and Dance Academy in Visakhapatnam will feature performances by noted artistes from across India




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An art showcase in Hyderabad heralds the power of Gandhi as a global icon in a pre-digital era

Give Peace Another Chance, artist Adarsh Baji’s series on view at Kalakriti art gallery in Hyderabad, doffs its hat to the life, times and ideology of Mahatma Gandhi ahead of his 154th birth anniversary




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The Complete to Planning Your Estate in Florida: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes are Fulfilled for Florida Residents

What happens to your estate after you are gone is very much within your control. Estate planning is not only for the wealthy; it is for everyone. It is simply the process of deciding where your assets are to be distributed after your death. For those people who wish to preserve their assets for designated […]




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The Complete to Planning Your Estate in Pennsylvania: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes are Fulfilled for Pennsylvania Residents

What happens to your estate after you are gone is very much within your control. Estate planning is not only for the wealthy; it is for everyone. It is simply the process of deciding where your assets are to be distributed after your death. For those people who wish to preserve their assets for designated […]




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The Complete to Planning Your Estate in Michigan: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes are Fulfilled for Michigan Residents

What happens to your estate after you are gone is very much within your control. Estate planning is not only for the wealthy; it is for everyone. It is simply the process of deciding where your assets are to be distributed after your death. For those people who wish to preserve their assets for designated […]




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The Complete to Planning Your Estate in Georgia: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes are Fulfilled for Georgia Residents

What happens to your estate after you are gone is very much within your control. Estate planning is not only for the wealthy; it is for everyone. It is simply the process of deciding where your assets are to be distributed after your death. For those people who wish to preserve their assets for designated […]




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The Complete to Planning Your Estate in Virginia: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes are Fulfilled for Virginia Residents

What happens to your estate after you are gone is very much within your control. Estate planning is not only for the wealthy; it is for everyone. It is simply the process of deciding where your assets are to be distributed after your death. For those people who wish to preserve their assets for designated […]




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The Complete to Planning Your Estate in Washington: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes are Fulfilled for Washington Residents

What happens to your estate after you are gone is very much within your control. Estate planning is not only for the wealthy; it is for everyone. It is simply the process of deciding where your assets are to be distributed after your death. For those people who wish to preserve their assets for designated […]




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The Sex Drive Solution for Women: Dr. Jen’s Power Plan to Fire Up Your Libido

Dr. Jen doesn’t only talk about weight management, renewed energy and sexual vitality for women over 40 – she is a living, breathing example that all of that and more are possible. The Sex Drive Solution is a wealth of information not only from an expert doctor, but a woman, a wife, a mother who […]




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Hidden Cuba: A Photojournalist’s Unauthorized Journey to Cuba to Capture Daily Life — 50 years After Castro’s Revolution

Renowned American photographer Jack Watson travelled to Cuba on a legal humanitarian visa. He chronicled his journey with breath-taking, and often heart breaking images of he Cuba people, cites, and countryside. Watson describes his visit:  “I had stepped back in time 50 years — this was my first impression of Cuba. My journey, which began […]




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Reflection On America’s Great Loop: A Baby Boomer Couple’s Year-Long Boating Odyssey

Adventure is not just for the young! Though “I own a boat!” was the opening phrase to their courtship and eventual married life, little did Baby Boomer couple George and Pat Hospodar know then that those words would lead to their making a year-long “journey of a lifetime” aboard their boat, Reflection, almost forty years […]




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The Teen’s Ultimate Guide to Making Money When You Can’t Get a Job: 199 Ideas for Earning Cash On Your Own Terms

Whether it was in a department store, fast-food chain, or kiosk in the mall, everyone remembers his or her first job — even more so, you probably remember that first paycheck. But with the current job crisis, it has become harder and harder to enjoy the fruits of your labor. As of October 2011, the […]




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Graphene-supported organoiridium clusters catalyze N-alkylation of amines via hydrogen borrowing reaction

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35163-35171
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06595F, Paper
Open Access
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Tsun-Ren Chen, Siang-Yu Chiu, Wen-Jen Lee, Yi-Siou Tsai, Yu-Sheng Huang
Graphene-supported organic iridium clusters (GSOIC) exhibit excellent N-alkylation on various substrates under green processes.
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A comparative study on the thermal runaway process mechanism of a pouch cell based on Li-rich layered oxide cathodes with different activation degrees

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35074-35080
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06355D, Paper
Open Access
Wei Quan, Jinghao Liu, Jinhong Luo, Hangfan Dong, Zhimin Ren, Guohua Li, Xiaopeng Qi, Zilong Su, Jiantao Wang
Li-rich layered oxide (LLO) is regarded as one of the most promising candidates for the next-generation batteries.
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Synthesis of F127-GA@ZnO nanogel as a cisplatin drug delivery pH-sensitive system

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35005-35020
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06514J, Paper
Open Access
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Nguyen Ngoc Son, Vu Minh Thanh, Nguyen Thi Huong
In this study, a novel drug delivery system based on zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) was developed for the enhanced delivery of cisplatin (CPT) to improve cancer treatment.
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Enhanced surface functionalization of 2D molybdenum/tin chalcogenide nanostructures for effective SERS detection of Escherichia coli

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35021-35034
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05315J, Paper
Open Access
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Zainab Ishfaq, Layla A. Almutairi, M. Yasir Ali, Salhah Hamed Alrefaee, Mohamed Abdelsabour Fahmy, Elsammani Ali Shokralla, Lamiaa G. Alharbe, Adnan Ali, Arslan Ashfaq, A. R. Abd-Elwahed
This study enhances MoS2/SnS2 nanoparticles for SERS, functionalizing them with L-cysteine. Successful detection of E. coli demonstrates their potential as cost-effective SERS substrates for real-world applications.
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Strain-affected ferroelastic domain walls in RbMnFe charge-transfer materials undergoing collective Jahn–Teller distortion

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35081-35089
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06397J, Paper
Open Access
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Marius Hervé, Shintaro Akagi, Laurent Guérin, Leland B. Gee, Ryan D. Ribson, Matthieu Chollet, Marco Cammarata, Shuntaro Nagashima, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Hiroko Tokoro, Eric Collet
This X-ray diffraction study of RbMnFe materials reveals the ferroelastic domains walls resulting from collective Jahn–Teller distortion coupled to intermetallic charge-transfer and the spatial extension of the strain around the walls.
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Effective BPA degradation in water: the integration of bimetallic UiO-66 Ce–Zr

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35090-35096
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06460G, Paper
Open Access
Leidy Marcela Gallo, Juan L. Obeso, Nora S. Portillo-Vélez, Carlos E. Garduño-Albino, Catalina V. Flores, Leonardo Herrera-Zuñiga, Alejandro Islas-Jácome, Ricardo A. Peralta, Carolina Leyva
In this work, a bimetallic MOF UiO-66 Ce–Zr to degrade bisphenol A (BPA) in water was synthesised. The material exhibited a remarkable degradation efficiency of 84.3% under UV irradiation for 240 minutes.
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Investigation of the titanium-mediated catalytic enantioselective oxidation of aryl benzyl sulfides containing heterocyclic groups

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35105-35113
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA07088G, Paper
Open Access
Maria Annunziata M. Capozzi, Angel Alvarez-Larena, Joan F. Piniella Febrer, Cosimo Cardellicchio
Enantiopure benzyl heteroaryl sulfoxides were obtained by asymmetric oxidation. However, two benzimidazolyl sulfoxides were found to be conglomerates.
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Interfacial properties of a ZnO/PTFE composite from density functional tight-binding simulations

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35097-35103
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06790H, Paper
Open Access
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Chol Ryu, Jun-Gi Ri, Yun-Sim Kim, Chung-Hyok Rim, Chung-Il Kim, Chol-Jun Yu
We performed density functional tight-binding simulations of a ZnO/amorphous PTFE superlattice to reveal the interlayer binding strength, charge redistribution and enhancement of mechanical strength of the ZnO-reinforced PTFE plastic composites.
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Correction: Sustainable polymeric adsorbents for adsorption-based water remediation and pathogen deactivation: a review

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35104-35104
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA90129K, Correction
Open Access
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Huda Alkhaldi, Sarah Alharthi, Salha Alharthi, Hind A. AlGhamdi, Yasmeen M. AlZahrani, Safwat A. Mahmoud, Lamiaa Galal Amin, Nora Hamad Al-Shaalan, Waleed E. Boraie, Mohamed S. Attia, Samera Ali Al-Gahtany, Nadiah Aldaleeli, Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, A. I. Sharshir, Mohamed Madani, Reem Darwesh, Sana F. Abaza
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An electrochemiluminescence device for visualized detection of lead in practical samples

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35232-35238
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05742B, Paper
Open Access
Huaanzi Hu, Cheng Wang, Chen Qian, Chengqi Li, Yulin Li, Jianbin Pan, Xinye Ni
An up-response ECL imaging system is designed for visualized Pb2+ detection with high selectivity.
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Improved energy storage performance and thermal stability of hafnium-substituted strontium sodium niobate tungsten bronze ceramics

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35064-35073
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06275B, Paper
Open Access
Wenbin Feng, Lele Ding, Jiajia Zhang, Chunyi Zhu, Shenzhenyi Song
A lead-free Sr4−xLaxNa2HfxNb10−xO30 ceramic was synthesized and characterized, and high energy storage density, energy storage efficiency and good thermal stability were simultaneously achieved.
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Dissolution of simulated nuclear waste glass at high surface area to solution volume, high pH and 70 °C: comparison of international simple glass and SON68 glass

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35114-35127
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA04936E, Paper
Open Access
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Felix Brandt, Sébastien Caes, Martina Klinkenberg, Juri Barthel, Sanheng Liu, Karel Lemmens, Dirk Bosbach, Karine Ferrand
Long-term dissolution experiments on two nuclear waste glasses indicate a diffusion-controlled dissolution mechanism including the formation of a porous surface altered layer and secondary phases without a resumption to higher rates.
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Newly synthesized sulfonamide derivatives explored for DNA binding, enzyme inhibitory, and cytotoxicity activities: a mixed computational and experimental analyses

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35047-35063
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06412G, Paper
Open Access
Nasima Arshad, Yasir Mehmood, Hammad Ismail, Fouzia Perveen, Aneela Javed, Pervaiz Ali Channar, Aamer Saeed, Sadia Naseem, Fatima Naseer
This work reports synthesis, characterization, DNA, enzyme binding and cytotoxicity activity of three 4-((3-arylthiazolo[3,4-d]isoxazol-5-yl)amino)benzene sulfonamide derivatives with a thaizaole(3,4-d)isoxazole-based fused ring heterocyclic system.
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Clues from an ionic cocrystal structure: from catalysis to mechanochemistry

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,34843-34847
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05652C, Paper
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Bandana Sar, Mollah Rohan Ahsan, Arijit Mukherjee
A crystal structure is no longer conceived as a static entity; rather, it often mirrors crystallization pathways, linking crystal structures with a solution scenario.
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