Ajay Bhalla
really deserving candidates In a meeting chaired by Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla on September 16 and attended by senior members of the various science departments of the national government (DST, DBT, etc.), the Union government eliminated hundreds of awards given to the country’s scientists for achievements on various
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Is it just me or does everyone see a self-fulfilling prophecy here? These News & Views articles assess the importance and lasting impact of 10 key papers from our archive, from the finding of the first exoplanet to the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. #Nature150 https://t.co/d4Cq26wJXE
Abhijit Banerjee
Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, the world had nine new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine), all but one of whom were white and none were women. Before the announcements began, Göran Hansson,
