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"There's still meat on the bone," he says, adding that he is glad he helped throw light on the subject, even though his own case was not successful.

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Historians say Mr Levi's artefacts could also help throw light on the larger Jewish community in India.

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She collaborated with the modern dancer Loie Fuller, making three colored-glass screens to throw light on Fuller as she danced.

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While states and some ministries could bridge part of the data gap by conducting their own surveys - Bihar, for instance, is currently doing a caste census which will throw light on several other indicators - these can only be stopgap measures, experts say.

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Beyond revealing the pride of both men, they throw light on the intricate mind behind what Max calls “the Sondheim experience” — “a moment of complex pleasure when the music wakes and tickles and outwits your sluggish brain while the rhymes click like castanets.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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