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Those of us living in India, who are not from India, are on a quest to understand our new home. We share these stories from time to time, taken from mainstream publications in India and elsewhere, about what we are learning. With a photo like this, we could not resist such an explanatory story, in the form of an editorial from this week’s Sunday Review section of the New York Times:

OPINION

Why India Is Going to Mars

By MANOJ KUMAR PATAIRIYA

The red planet isn’t just about horoscopes. We can live with superstition, and science.