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At the lunch table the other day, the Visa Venkateswara   posts came up for discussion, and it occurred to us that, given her name, Goddes...

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan presents a dim assessment of Sen's Chancellorship at Nalanda: This isn't the first time Nalanda and Amarty...

[ UPDATE : Harmful but not lethal an article from the print edition of today's The Hindu newspaper has some content from the essay belo...

In a must read write-up, Debunking Big Pharma's canard against Novartis judgment: Myth and Reality , Prof. Brook K. Baker , Professor of...

John Sutherland has a terrific piece in The Guardian : Which book reviewer will win the 'hatchet job of the year' award? Not only d...

... has begun. Vinod Scaria has started a forum discussion thread on Ayyadurai at the Nature India website [ Update (6 December 2009): ...

... is back in the news. Through a blog -- Freedom for Science -- written by card-carrying members of Ayyadurai Fan Club. The blog has a...

Before I get to that question, let me first link to this post by Rahul Siddharthan, who has linked to Ayyadurai's website . Here's ...

K.S. Jayaraman has a piece in Nature entitled Report Row Ousts Top Indian Scientist (probably behind a paywall). Leaving aside the bit abo...

In the 42-page document Shiva and Sardana described Brahmachari as the “director general who believes he knows all even though he has minima...

Hidden in the Mint story about Shiva Ayyadurai's travails at CSIR, there is this revealing statistic : Over the past 10 years, CSIR la...

Ankita Anika Gupta of Mint has the scoop . Here's a basic outline of the plot: Ayyadurai, a 45 year-old NRI scientist / technocrat,...

Graded awards like our National Awards -- Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan -- necessarily involve some judgement about the rela...

Quite a few articles about the rise and rise of blogging. WSJ 's Tunku Varadarajan starts with the premise that the first blog was born...

Remember the Indian Express ' very harsh spotlight on the functioning and performance of DRDO, the Defence Research and Development Org...

... to the series of articles in the Indian Express (I have collected all the links here ) trashing the Defence Research and Development Or...

Update : Here are the links. Articles: 1. Big picture 2. Missiles 3. Main Battle Tank 4. Combat aircraft 5. Who audits the DRDO ? ...

After Silvia Nasar and David Gruber trashed   Prof. Yau 's reputation, Dennis Overbye tries to restore some of it in his article in ...

It is atrocious that our media even dared to 'announce' -- without any evidence whatsoever -- that Prof. V.S. Arunachalam (former Sc...

Technology is coming to the rescue of the beleaguered India Meteorological Department (IMD) to perfect the monsoon prediction system in the ...