Tag Archives: The Hindu
A danger of GST 2.0
Since Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement last week that India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates will be rationalised anew from September 22, I’ve been seeing a flood of pieces all in praise — and why not? The GST … Continue reading
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Tagged dietary health, fiscal federalism, Goods and Services Tax, Nirmala Sitharaman, non-communicable diseases, pizza bread, refined flour, sourdough, The Hindu
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A limit of ‘show, don’t tell’
The virtue of ‘show, don’t tell’ in writing, including in journalism, lies in its power to create a more vivid, immersive, and emotionally engaging reading experience. Instead of simply providing information or summarising events, the technique encourages writers to use … Continue reading
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Tagged Friends, narrative, narrative populism, Physics World, polarons, science communication, The Hindu
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Majorana 1, science journalism, and other things
While I have many issues with how the Nobel Prizes are put together as an institution, the scientific achievements they have revealed have been some of the funnest concepts I’ve discovered in science, including the clever ways in which scientists … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged Alexei Kitaev, Ben Feringa, Cassandra Willyard, curiosity, curiosity-driven research, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, John Kosterlitz, Majorana 1, Majorana fermions, Microsoft, National Science Day, Nobel Prizes, quantum computing, science journalism, The Hindu, topological order
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An ambigram in The Hindu
The Hindu has an unusual ad in today’s paper (at least in the Chennai edition, which I get) on the occasion of Republic Day. At the middle is an ambigram that reads “journalism” one way and “democracy” upside down. Below the … Continue reading
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Tagged ambigram, democracy, journalism, Republic Day, The Hindu
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Posting stats — 2024
When I joined The Wire in 2015, the average length of my blog posts increased from around 700 words to around 850 words, and over time to 1,000 words. This wasn’t forced so much as a natural reflection of the … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, monkey of the inkpot, The Book of Imaginary Beings, The Hindu, The Wire
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Posting stats — 2024
When I joined The Wire in 2015, the average length of my blog posts increased from around 700 words to around 850 words, and over time to 1,000 words. This wasn’t forced so much as a natural reflection of the … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, monkey of the inkpot, The Book of Imaginary Beings, The Hindu, The Wire
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New pages for science from The Hindu
The Hindu has a new print product out called ‘Surf & Dive’ (S&D), whose first edition the editor Suresh Nambath and Shashi Tharoor launched at the group’s ‘Lit for Life’ event in Chennai on January 18. We’ve been working on this … Continue reading
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Tagged science journalism, Surf & Dive, The Hindu
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New science pages in The Hindu
The Hindu has a new print product out called ‘Surf & Dive’ (S&D), whose first edition the editor Suresh Nambath and MP Shashi Tharoor launched at the group’s ‘Lit for Life’ event in Chennai on January 18. We’ve been working on … Continue reading
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Tagged science journalism, Surf & Dive, The Hindu, The Hindu Science
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The fever dream of ‘technological sovereignty’
I recently came across an initiative called “Industrial47”. Someone had shared a link to it on a group I’m part of, and when its card loaded, the image was of a nuclear weapon going off. I found on LinkedIn that … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged air pollution, farm fires, Indian Space Research Organisation, industrial revolution, Industrial47, LinkedIn, Rahul Seth, sewer cleaning, Shankar Nair, smokeless chulha, social harm, Social welfare, solar cooker, The Hindu, Three Gorges dam, Yarlung Tsangpo dam
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