The return of ‘divide and rule’ policy
The weaker the students’ voices grow, the easier will be to ‘govern’ them.
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Let’s Create Budgetary Literacy
Ignorance and illiteracy about the budget can legitimately be interpreted by the Government as indifference.
Indian Science must attract more International Students
With the coming of larger number of international students to India, our students are likely to be more conscious of the global developments, making Indian students “global citizens” ready to be absorbed in the national and global employment market.
Compromise and complicity in international student mobility: the ethnographic case of Indian medical students at a Chinese university
With government-subsidized public medical schools being extremely competitive while the private alternative extremely expensive, coming to CNU, China for MBBS could be understood primarily as a compromise made by a group of Indian doctor-aspirants who are academically as well as financially excluded from medical education in India.
Indian Industry – Institution R&D Partnership: An Overdue Imperative
Prescriptions for better Academia-Industry partnership in India.
Comical and (un)comical irrationalism
And while the tragicomical exposure of their lack of understanding of what should be common sense make for unsightly optics, the practice of irrational behavior: superstition happens more frequently, and everywhere around us, and some of it being actively partaken by those known and close to us is far more common and dangerous.
Scientific publishing and piracy: Which problems does piracy solve, and which remain?
How does piracy, legal or otherwise, address the systematic problems in publishing?
Evolutionary thoughts in Indian scriptures
I don’t want to claim that our ancestors knew modern astrophysics or evolution—but this way of thinking was there
Do we need Controlled Human Infection Models in India?
As infectious diseases are a moving target, the rigorous effort to discuss CHIM studies in India is urgently needed.
Joint Statement by the Three Science Academies of India
It would be a retrograde step to remove the teaching of the theory of evolution from school and college curricula or to dilute this by offering non-scientific explanations or myths.