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A Historian’s Notes On How To Talk About Ancient Science – Indian or Not

Aparajith Ramnath 30/01/2017

To reduce the scientific enterprise to a battle for...

At the Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. Credit: rosshuggett/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Conversation on Eastern Traditions of Science That Needs to Happen But Won’t

Anonymous 29/10/2016

By The Conversation not exerting its editorial rights from...

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Breaking Down the ‘Jagat-Guru Complex’: India, a Giver of Science, Never a Taker

Shailza Sharma 24/07/2016

The conviction that we have always known everything that...

Siddhartha Mukherjee. Source: YouTube

Siddhartha Mukherjee Prepares Us for a Crucial Moment in the History of the Genome

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/05/2016

With his new book, the author takes a step...

Staphylococcus xylosus. Credit: anicole/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Crosstalk: From the Inner Workings of a Cell to Science and Society

Sunil Laxman 15/09/2015

Crosstalk is a new monthly column on the history,...