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4 | Jerusalem Rewriting History? An Israeli biblical scholar claims that the Essenes, the 1st century Jewish community commonly believed to have written the Dead Sea Scrolls, may never have existed. Rachel Elior contends that the story of the virtuous Essenes was fabricated by a former priest as a "rebuttal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

While painting India's potential with broad rhetorical strokes, Nilekani achieves an impressive breadth nonetheless. He sketches an overwhelming list of sociocultural hurdles from the political legacy of Nehru-era socialism to education, the deeply entrenched caste system, and urbanization. But his reliance on platitudes and wide-eyed optimism is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining India: A Manifesto by the Bill Gates of Bangalore | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

So who were the real authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Elior theorizes that the Essenes were really the renegade sons of Zadok, a priestly caste banished from the Temple of Jerusalem by intriguing Greek rulers in 2nd century B.C. When they left, they took the source of their wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scholar Claims Dead Sea Scrolls 'Authors' Never Existed | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

Newly independent nations took on the white man's burden, however, and surpassed their former overlords' expectations. The target of Mill's doubt, India - with some 3,000 castes, 22 official languages and at least 10 distinct faiths - is the world's most populous democracy, despite the efforts of insurgents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Dithering Democracies | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

But what lingers after you finish reading The Big Necessity is characters like Champaben, an outcast woman from the untouchable Dalit caste in India whose job is to clean the country's dry, filthy latrines. She regularly contracts dysentery, giardiasis and brain fever from her exposure to human waste. No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toilet Tales: Inside the World of Waste | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

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