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    View: Cosmopolitan Bengali grooms should revise their opinion of the conical shola topor

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    Many may be surprised then to learn that the so-called dunce cap was fashioned in the west to help children concentrate! Apparently a 13th century Christian monk John Duns Scotus developed a 'duns cap' that his unruly students could wear to help them focus.

    Today weddings in India have homogenised to an astonishing extent. Barring the actual pronouncement of sacraments and exchange of vows, the rest of the events are common across denominations. Given that brides and grooms now often style themselves on their favourite film stars, the feeling of sameness when it comes to wedding finery in particular, is inescapable, although minor concessions are made to regional markers such as mangalsutras and
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