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National Institute of Immunology

Waters and bridges between science journalism and scicomm

On November 24-25, the Science Journalists’ Association of India (SJAI) conducted its
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Brexit

Cognitive ability and voting 'leave' on Brexit

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE on November
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BCCI

A stage-managed World Cup

I’m glad the ICC Cricket World Cup ended the way it
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So many cynical ads on TV

I wrote about cynical ads airing on Indian cable TV a while
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India has a right to noise
Deepavali

India has a right to noise

Excerpt from ‘More light, less sound: On firecrackers and a festival of
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Current Science

On Somanath withdrawing his autobiography

Excerpt from The Hindu, November 4, 2023: S. Somanath, Chairman, Indian Space
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Atoms for Peace

India's science leadership

On October 17, the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT)
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crew module

Gaganyaan: The ingredient is not the recipe

For all the hoopla over indigeneity – from ISRO chairman S. Somanath exalting
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Char Dham highway

An EIA process just for the Himalaya?

In The Hindu today, lawyers Archana Vaidya and Vikram Hegde have written
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Daniel Pimentel

An 'expanded' heuristic to evaluate science as a non-scientist

The Hindu publishes a column called ‘Notebook’ every Friday, in which journalists
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Bharatiya Janata Party

Marginalia: On NewsClick, NYT, toolkits, etc.

The Bharatiya Janata Party in power in India knows that the process
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Alfred Nobel

“Why has no Indian won a science Nobel this year?”

For all their flaws, the science Nobel Prizes – at the time they’
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