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A cricket beyond politics
On September 11, the Supreme Court was asked to urgently hear a petition that sought to cancel the Asia Cup T20 match between India and Pakistan scheduled for September 14 in the UAE. The petition, filed by four law students, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996 World Cup, Article 51, Ashis Nandy, Asia Cup, Board of Control for Cricket in India, cricket, national interest, Olympic Truce, Operation Sindoor, Pahalgam attack, Supreme Court of India
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Who’s to blame for the American right’s distrust of science?
This study unambiguously suggests that scientific journals do the institution of science no favor when they insert themselves so directly in the political debate, especially at a time when trust in the scientific community continues to decline on the right … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged Ashis Nandy, burden of proof, Donald Trump, Laurie Penny, Nature Human Behaviour, political right, Politico, pseudoscience, reason of state, science and society, Scientific American, scientific debates
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What is academic freedom?
Note: I originally wrote two versions of this article for The Wire; one, a ‘newsier’ version, was published in June 2020. I’d intended to publish the version below, which is more of a discussion/analysis, sometime last year itself but it … Continue reading
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Tagged academic freedom, academic freedom index, Ashis Nandy, deliberative democracy, freedom of cultural expression, gender identity, marketplace of ideas, right to science, Scholars At Risk Network, UN ICESCR, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Gothenburg, V-Dem Project
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Trump, science denial and violence
For a few days last week, before the mail-in votes had been counted in the US, the contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump seemed set for a nail-biting finish. In this time a lot of people expressed disappointment on … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged anti-masker, anti-vaxxer, Ashis Nandy, Challakere, COVID-19, disease modelling, Donald Trump, history of science, India-based Neutrino Observatory, Joe Biden, Kudankulam nuclear power plant, medical care, medical ethics, political mathematics, public hospitals, reason of state, Science City, science denialism, scientism, social epidemiology, Sterlite, Thoothukudi, US presidential election
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