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Gangan Pratap has been having too much fun with data on India's standing in the world of science and science funding. The following two ...

The caste census is (most likely) on ! Let's hope the formal decision will be announced soon. To see the significance of this (impendi...

The Beatles sang some four decades ago, "All you need is love." Raghunath Mashelkar sings now, " All you need is irreverence ...

Take a look at the website of this conference, and then at the brochure (which, presumably, was circulated quite a while ago) for the same...

It's fair to say that JEE has strayed too far from what most of us would agree should be its real mandate: standardization across the la...

The memorandum submitted by the IIM-A faculty council irritated the hell out of me. It doesn't take much effort to conclude -- and to s...

In many cases of plagiarism, we don't get to hear much from the perpetrator except for a mini-quote here and there. But in Sancheti'...

I have a humble request to the faculty members at IIM-A. Please don't say things like this: "The MHRD wants world-class quality...

In their zeal to hype things up, many journalists tend to portray the IIXs [where X=T,M,Sc,SER, ...] as mega-meritocracies which are one up ...

Seema Singh's post at Mint Blogs had this eye-catching title: IISc is India's Top Ranking Engineering/Technology Institute , so nat...

Like they did last year , the IITs have released some (but only some!) data on this year's JEE rank-holders. Specifically, we now have...

The budget for higher education has gone up by a whopping 36 percent. Take a look at this summary (taken from Expenditure by Ministry/Depart...

Gangan Prathap (National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi) is the author of this preliminary study (...

... and that someone is the editorial team at Mint . Mint carried an editorial today on the Pink Chaddi campaign to name and shame the b...

So clueless that they failed to anticipate not just outrage and scorn, but serious professional ridicule; see the posts by Falstaff and Ku...

Never Forget   has been in the works for 2 months, and it went live this Republic Day -- yesterday. While the 26/11 terrorist attack in M...

Dr. Anandibai Joshi was the first Indian woman to get a medical degree -- in 1887, and from Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (whi...

Published by the Indian Academy of Sciences , Lilavati's Daughters is a collection of biographical and autobiographical essays in which...

I don't know what kind of inputs Prof. C.N.R. Rao gave to the government before it announced the launch of eight new IITs. And I don...

IISc [is] not a substitute for IIT. -- Prof. U.R. Rao That's the headline of this story on a recent meeting in which a number of publ...