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Category: Op-eds

He is never wrong

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Akshay Deshmane reported for The Morning Context on October 20 that the Union environment ministry has reversed two […]

October 21, 2021 Op-eds

Revisiting ‘The Resistance of the Time’

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Let us visit the future – a suitable point of time located in one of the many tomorrows […]

September 15, 2021 Op-eds, Science

NCBS retraction – addenda

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My take on the NCBS paper being retracted, and the polarised conversation that has erupted around the incident, […]

July 8, 2021 Op-eds, Science

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

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

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

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

The constructionist hypothesis and expertise during the pandemic

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Now that COVID-19 cases are rising again in the country, the trash talk against journalists has been rising […]

April 22, 2021 Op-eds, Scicomm

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