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Every year, a neighbourhood spends weeks building a goddess from clay and then gives her to the river. This Bijoya Dashami, we look at why that makes sense, from the mirror ritual to the Moon-based calendar to the river’s side of the story.

You glance at a clock, read the right time, and still might not know it. Follow a stopped clock through two thousand years of philosophy to see what it really takes to know something.