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Women Won’t Study STEM Just Because They Live in a More Gender-Equal Country

Lakshmi Supriya 08/01/2019

The gap in science education between the genders is...

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The Indian Science Congress Is Too Big to Succeed

Ramanujam Nadathur 08/01/2019

Cramming everything into a four-day event isn’t going to...

A poster outside Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, advertising the Indian Science Congress. Source: YouTube

Pseudoscience at the Science Congress Won’t Stop Unless All Scientists Speak Up

K. VijayRaghavan 06/01/2019

When lay people, including politicians, make erroneous statements, the...

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How to React to Stupidity at the Science Congress

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/01/2019

Perhaps the BJP government has thrown the field open...

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Does the Indian Science Congress Acknowledge the Need to Be Reflexive?

Avijit Pathak 05/01/2019

Barring some remarkable exceptions, scientists tend to confine themselves...

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Why India’s Best Universities Must Hire More Teachers

Pushkar 02/01/2019

India’s best universities need a mix of both teaching-...

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A Sexism Less Noticed: In Academic Recommendation Letters

Aswin Sekhar 17/12/2018

Most of academia is highly competitive and near-misses are...