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Tag: NASA

On resource constraints and merit

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In the face of complaints about how so few women have been awarded this year’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships in India, some […]

November 12, 2020 Analysis, Science

A sympathetic science

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If you feel the need to respond, please first make sure you have read the post in full. […]

January 6, 2020 Culture, Op-eds, Science

Poor Sanskrit

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‘BJP MP Says Speaking Sanskrit Beats Diabetes, Boosts Nervous System’, The Wire, December 13, 2019: In a debate […]

December 13, 2019 Op-eds, Scicomm

The PM’s Chandrayaan group-hug

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I understand Dutt’s interpretation of the moment in question but with reservations about what it signals for the […]

September 7, 2019 Op-eds

Moon, mission and Modi

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Should Prime Minister Narendra Modi not have been in the control room during the autonomous descent phase of […]

September 7, 2019 Op-eds

Review: ‘Mission Mangal’ (2019)

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This review assumes Tanul Thakur’s review as a preamble. There’s the argument that ISRO isn’t doing much by […]

August 17, 2019 Culture, Scicomm

Finding trash in the dumpster

Just as there’s no merit in writing a piece that is confused and incomplete, there’s no merit in […]

April 3, 2018 Op-eds, Science

For space, frugality is a harmful aspiration

Ref: ‘ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission to cost lesser than Hollywood movie Interstellar – here’s how they make it cost-effective’, […]

February 21, 2018 Op-eds

Why Titan is awesome #11

Titaaaaan! Here we go again. 😄 As has been reported, NASA has been interested in sending a robotic submarine to […]

February 16, 2018 Science

ISRO v. SpaceX doesn’t make sense

Though I’ve never met the guy, I don’t hold Pallava Bagla in very high regard because his stories […]

February 15, 2018 Life notes, Op-eds, Science

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