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From +34°C in India to -32°C in Estonia
I was almost closing my laptop when I saw a short and happy email from a person I didn’t know who claimed to be the first Indian student to have defended his PhD at the University of Tartu. A few days...
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Estonian and Indian Milk Lovers Share a Common Ancestor
Milk is a beneficial food product, but it’s not for everybody. The enzyme that breaks down milk sugar, or lactose, is active in all healthy kids. On the other hand, only a third of adults can consume...
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Where Do the European Romani (Gypsies) Come From?
There are not many helpful archaeological findings or written sources when it comes to mapping the path travelled by Romani, or Gypsies. At first, linguists had compared different languages and...
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Europeans and Indians Share a Light-Skinned Ancestor
About 20,000 years ago, a person lived somewhere in the Middle East or Central Asia who bequeathed the genetic coding variant for lighter skin not only to all Europeans, but also many Indian people....
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3 PhDs from India: We Love Estonian Christmas
From left to right: Sandip, Pratyush, and Chandana after the commencement ceremony on 1 December 2015. Photo from a personal archive I still remember that happy email from someone named Gyaneshwer...
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Photojournalist Sami Siva: Ignorance is more shocking than harsh events
Sami Siva has covered post-conflict and social-issue stories on three continents. His work has been published in The New York Times, TIME, The Guardian, CNN, and other media outlets. Now Sami studies...
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