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The Problem With India’s National Science Day

Aashima Dogra and Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2020

Of all the special days on the calendar, Science...

scientific temper, Jawaharlal Nehru, Murli Manohar Joshi, Rajnath Singh, Rafale fighter jet, National Council of Science and Technology Communication, Constitution of India, Article 51A, CV Raman, Meghnad Saha, Satyendra Nath Bose, MK Gandhi, heliocentrism, Sudhir Kakar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

The Shrinking Space for Scientific Temper in India Is Worrying

C.P. Rajendran 04/11/2019

We should celebrate India's constitutional provision for the scientific...

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Why is a Nobel Prize for Men Still Universally Relevant for the Sciences?

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/10/2019

The fact that the Nobel Prizes essentially emerge from...

sycophancy, CV Raman, Richard Feynman, RA Mashelkar, Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha, Indian culture, nuclear family, P Balaram, authoritarianism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Homo hierarchicus, mediocrity barrier, Freeman Dyson, Indian educational system, Indian examination system,

The Scientist as Rebel in the Indian Cultural Milieu

C.P. Rajendran 16/05/2019

The dynastic blood relation as a prop for personal...

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Five Reflections on National Science Day

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

C.V. Raman won a Nobel Prize for discovering the...

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A New Science Archives Preserves the Ways of Seeing Science’s People

Renuka Kulkarni 05/02/2019

The curators of an art installation at the venue...

An image in Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's 1994 paper, commemorating the contributions of S. Pancharatnam. Credit: Current Science

Catching a Glimpse of S. Pancharatnam in History’s Precisest Chemical Reaction

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/06/2018

Before his untimely death at the age of 35,...