Tag Archives: protest
Free speech at the outer limits
On January 12, Peter W. Wood, president of an American organisation called the National Association of Scholars (NAS), wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal against attempts by one individual to prevent NAS from organising a conference on science’s … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged boycott, Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964, Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, climate change, Constitution of India, free speech, freedom of speech, Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurie Penny, Leonid Teytelman, Netflix, protest, reproducibility crisis, Tripura high court, Wall Street Journal
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My country is burning. Why should I work?
A few days ago, I found asking myself the following question: My country is burning, why should I work? I ended up with some (admittedly inchoate) thoughts, delineated below. I’m trying to fight off this abject helplessness I’m feeling and … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes, Scicomm
Tagged authoritarianism, Citizenship Amendment Act, critical thinking, democracy, fascism, individual responsibility, ISRO, pluralism, protest, science communication
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To understand #NotInMyName
The more vicious public debates we have, the more it will seem like a ‘conversation’ cordoned off to those masses for whom an awareness of social and political issues is only just budding. Continue reading
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Tagged #NotInMyName, Brahmanism, Brahminism, casteism, Huffington Post, lynching, News Minute, protest, Shivam Vij, Sify, social science, upper caste, upper class
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