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Month: May 2021

The problems with one-shot Covishield

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NDTV quoted unnamed sources in the Indian government saying it will be conducting a study to assess the […]

May 31, 2021 Analysis, Op-eds

‘Surface of last screaming’

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This has nothing to do with anything in the news. I was reading up about the Big Bang […]

May 30, 2021 Scicomm

The political theatre of Vardhan v. Ramdev

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Last week, Baba Ramdev made offensive remarks against allopathic medicine and against people desperately looking for oxygen for […]

May 24, 2021 Op-eds

On the PSA’s new COVID-19 advisory

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The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India, K. VijayRaghavan, has issued a […]

May 21, 2021 Op-eds, Scicomm

On The Lancet editorial

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On May 8, The Lancet published an editorial criticising the Narendra Modi government’s response to India’s second COVID-19 […]

May 19, 2021 Scicomm

Melinda, Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein)

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I’m not sure what to make of Bill Gates as he features in the New York Times‘s report […]

May 18, 2021 Op-eds

Review: ‘Love Death + Robots’ 2 (2021)

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I’ve been curious why the Marvel Cinematic Universe picked the Malthusian catastrophe for the ultimate disaster the superheroes […]

May 18, 2021 Culture

On the International Day of Light, remembering darkness

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Today is the International Day of Light. According to a UNESCO note: The International Day of Light is […]

May 16, 2021 Culture, Scicomm, Science

Courts and COVID

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India’s courts have played a prominent in helping (or not) the country manage its COVID-19 epidemic, especially during […]

May 5, 2021 Op-eds

Being apolitical doesn’t mean politics doesn’t exist

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A few years ago, we had a writer who would constantly pitch articles to us about how the […]

May 1, 2021 Op-eds, Science
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