Suman K Sharma

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In the article Are We Special (DE, 3 Aug 2025), we ended up with a teaser on the superiority of man over the rest of the animal kingdom.

There is that eloquent scene in the Bollywood epic movie, Deevar: Ravi (Shashi Kapur) is a humble police officer; while his older brother, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan), is a powerful don. In an intense confrontation between the two, Ravi wins the argument with a pithy utterance, “Mere pas Ma hai!” We can conceive of similar occasions in our remote past when an arche-ancestor of ours succeeded in outwitting a ferocious beast or overcame a big hurdle in that primal world. “Mere pas dimaghai!” he might have uttered something like that, congratulating himself for his brains.

Yet, it cannot be denied that most of the other creat

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