History

Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, twin pit toilets, organic toilets, bio-waste, human waste, biogas, human faeces, manual scavenging, Jayant Narlikar, nuclear reactor, Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, Jennifer Lopez, Time magazine, Harappa, Harappans, Mohenjo-Daro, Mohenjo Daro, Mohenjodaro, Su-Jok Therapy, Aryans, Dravidians,

At a Museum for Toilets, Perspectives on Public Sanitation

Aileen Blaney 09/02/2020

"Many kingdoms arose, and they all followed the same...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, cosmology, astronomy, colonialism, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope, Native Hawaiians, Hawaii, Mauna Kea observatories, Keck telescopes, SpaceX, Starlink mega-constellation, Kitt Peak, colonialism, New York Times, Mauna a Wakea, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar, Supreme Court of Hawaii, United States of America, imperialism, Arizona,

Astronomers May Not Like It but Astronomy and Colonialism Have a Shared History

Nithyanand Rao 02/02/2020

Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope...

Bhore committee, public healthcare, private healthcare, Jawaharlal Nehru, socialism, NITI Aayog, district hospitals, Central Government Health Scheme, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Ayushman Bharat, health insurance, Joseph Bhore, Joseph Bhore Committee, Sunil Amrith,

Why India’s Founders Championed a State-Dominated Healthcare System

Kiran Kumbhar 28/01/2020

The current government's complaint that it is unable to...

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, National Register of Citizens, National Population Register, caste distance, Muslims, Hindus, Christians, BR Ambedkar, MK Gandhi, photographic profiloscope, profiloscope, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindu Mahasabha, Atul Krishna Sur, Brija Shankar Guha, West Bengal, upper caste, lower caste, pan-Indian nationalism, right-wing nationalism,

What Mahalanobis Got Right About National Identity – and the BJP Gets Wrong

Abhinav Srinivasan 26/01/2020

Like Mahalanobis, the current government mistakenly believes that a...

Jawaharlal Nehru, Community Development Scheme, scientific temper, appropriate technology, Indira Gandhi, ISRO, Department of Atomic Energy, frugal engineering, National Physical Laboratory, technology politics, Amita Baviskar, Indian Institutes of Technology, brain drain, technological development, industrialisation, rural mobilisation, basic machinery, foreign trade, tractors, synthetic fertilizers, Digital India, Smart Cities, bullet train, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Make in India, LPG scheme, Aadhaar, Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, National Population Registry, National Register of Citizens, authoritarian technics,

How Nehru’s Politics Hobbled Modern India’s Use of Technology for Development

Shankar Sunil Nair 24/01/2020

'Midnight Machines' by Arun Mohan Sukumar effectively demonstrates that...

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The Women Who Helped India Eradicate Smallpox

Namrata Ganneri 04/12/2019

Women such as Mary Guinan and Cornelia E. Davis...

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How Far Have We Deviated From the Ideology of Our Constitution?

S.V. Narayanan 26/11/2019

The founding fathers of our constitution envisaged an egalitarian...