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Category: Culture

We did start the fire

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An ‘air purification’ ritual by Indian priests in Tokyo is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen done in a while.

October 23, 2016 Culture, Op-eds, Science

A return to Umberto Eco

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The unwavering intensity of his writing, and of his commitment to seem to be chronicling something as opposed to be vainly conjecturing something, is what made his fiction worth committing to.

February 24, 2016 Culture, Life notes, Op-eds

Playing villains, he made a giant of himself

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The Wire June 15, 2015 When the first installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy was released […]

June 15, 2015 Culture

Why Indian science projects must plan for cultural conversations, too

The Wire May 18, 2015 What should be the priority for science in India? Nature journal published answers […]

May 21, 2015 Culture, Scicomm, Science

Two of Alan Turing’s WW-II papers are now in the public domain

The Wire May 21, 2015 A scientific paper written by Alan Turing, the brilliant computer scientist who cracked the […]

May 21, 2015 Culture, Scicomm

From Orwell to Kafka, Markov to Doctorow: Understanding Big Data through metaphors

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On March 20, I attended a short talk by Malavika Jayaram, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet […]

March 28, 2015 Culture, Science

Wendy Doniger & fungi

The best stories are those that help us give new meanings to old objects, accustomed ideas and known tales. […]

August 21, 2014 Culture

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