Month: September 2018

A lecture hall at IIT-Kharagpur. Credit: ambuj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Mediocrity in Higher Education Is a Bigger Blow Than India Acknowledges

Pushkar 29/09/2018

For how long can a nation claim to be...

A depiction of the Riemann zeta function in the complex plane. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Infinite in All Directions: Titanic Storms, IIT-JEE Toppers, Riemann Hypothesis

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/09/2018

The hot news this week from the mathematical physics...

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As Gutkha Stands Banned, Use of Dohra Rises in Uttar Pradesh

Dinesh C. Sharma 28/09/2018

Dohra is a mixture of areca nut, catechu, edible...

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The DNA Detectives Hunting the Causes of Cancer

Kat Arney 27/09/2018

Cancer rates vary wildly across the world, and we...

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The Modi Government’s Pseudoscience Drive Is More Than an Attack on Science

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/09/2018

A person who peddles a "fact" that Indians flew airplanes...

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Discrimination, Growing Resistance to Drugs Fuelling India’s Tuberculosis Crisis

Madlen Davies 27/09/2018

Experts believe counselling for patients to start their treatment,...

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Swachh Bharat Should Also Eliminate Caste Discrimination

Jayshree Bajoria 26/09/2018

In addition to mechanising sanitation systems and supporting a...