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That timetable is highly controversial. For one thing, it would knock out of the running as the earliest hominid, or manlike creature, a favorite contender of many paleontologists, the small and apelike Ramapithecus (for the Hindu epic hero Rama), whose bones were first found in India and who died out some 10 million years ago. Perhaps more important, so recent a split would seem to allow far too little time for the development of a creature as sophisticated as modern...
...volume of the drums and kartals, the sweet incense and the glistening altar seem to inspire the devotees into uncontrolled gesticulations. They are thrown into a frenzy of twirling orange robes, red ribbons, flashing kartals and airborne sweat. The entire congregation leaps on the floor, shouting the mantra, "Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare..." At the end, they fall to their knees...
...chant any of the many names of God but the most successful and easiest chant is the maha-mantra, which goes "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare." By chanting and dancing the devotees confirm the existence of their eternal souls as part of God, and their bodies as transient carriers of their souls...
...question for future societies, which he pictures as technological utopias, has always been "Where do we go from here?" Now Clarke himself may be a writer with no place to go. After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film based on Clarke's screenplay, came Rendezvous with Rama, his 1973 novel which took the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards for science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke has become a hard act to follow, particularly for the author himself...
...news. Said Om Prakash, 26, a cloth merchant: "The election result shows that dictatorship cannot acquire any roots in this country." Declared M.C. Sachdeva, 27 a government clerk. "To my generation, freedom began today, not in 1947." The Janata victory, added a fire brigade employe "has come mythical Lord Rama descending to earth to destroy the evil demon Indira...