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The advance of fish cytogenetic research was greatly enhanced by technical innovations in the preparation of metaphase chromosomes. The small size of fish chromosomes and their high number compared to mammalian chromosomes, and the then current squash or crush method of preparing chromosomes with direct fixation of tissue blocks in 50% acetic acid, often resulted in few high quality metaphase spreads for analysis. These new molecular techniques when introduced ...
Stalin's book "Marxism and the National and Colonial Question" is a key book which deals with important questions of Marxist theory. The book includes a selection of articles which deal with the national question in the February and October Revolution of 1917, in the immediate years after the seizure of power and the background to the formation of the USSR as a voluntary federation of nations based upon the right to secession.
Nishant, a young Indian writer living in Paris, journeys down the Ganga, from its source in the Himalayas to the sea. Haunted by the memory of a beautiful Parisienne called Jaya, he plans to write a book about his voyage. On the banks of the Ganga, he chances upon Zehra, a dancing girl in the tradition of the great tawaiffs. Zehra resurrects the memory of Jaya. With Jaya and Zehra inhabiting his mental world, Nishant undertakes an entrancing journey down the ...
Nasiruddhin Haider, the Nawab of Awadh, had always had problems with his hair. Whatever he did it contrived to remain as flat and straight as ever, like the fringe of a silken tapestry. When an English barber turned up at court and offered to curl the royal locks, the King opened his heart to him. Before long the Englishman became not only his barber but (as is the way with hairdressers) his confidant and friend. Now, what the barber wanted was wealth and power, ...