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The alleged politicisation of science
“Don’t politicise X” has become the defence of choice for a class of scientists and public intellectuals in India whose class and caste privilege utterly blinds them to various inequities in the practice of science – as privilege is wont … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged caste-based discrimination, Chandrayaan 2, gender-based discrimination, ISRO, misogyny, nationalism, Paul Feyerabend, politicisation, politics, privilege, pseudoscience, rationalism, realpolitik, religion, scientism, Tim Hunt
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If Rajinikanth regrets some of the roles he played, and other questions
In most of Tamil cinema, “men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” Continue reading
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Tagged astrology, circlejerk, fair skin, fat jokes, John Berger, Kalathur Kannamma, Kamal Haasan, Kollywood, love, misogyny, moral policing, motherhood, punch dialogues, Rajinikanth, Santhanam, stalking, Tamil cinema, Ways of Seeing
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