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Credit where credit is due: the PanIIT folks should be commended for putting up the videos of the entire conference (or, most of it). The ...

Joe Nocera has a 10 page piece in NYTimes on a particular risk model popular in finance firms (don't forget to check out the accompany...

The Economist has an interesting story on the global market in universities [Hat tip: Eric Beerkens ]. A big chunk of it is devoted to str...

The interesting thing ... about this particular academic feud, however, is that for all its viciousness, the stakes really aren't low a...

T.V. Padma in SciDev.net : India's top science institute must now tackle social needs : But excellence in basic sciences needs to go ha...

Just a quick note to point you to the sidebar featuring a list of places where I store my links / bookmarks. For the sake of completeness, h...

Happy new year, folks! Let's start with some links: This mystery link is worth a quick visit for its cheekiness. Giridhar: Enhancing ...

The Research track at the PanIIT Global Conference featured a session on IIT Research: Inputs and Outputs . My colleague and friend Prof. J...

... The book is still emphatically straight, but Quilliam has given it a gay-positive tone, in sharp contrast to Comfort’s advice that if yo...

In his latest Current Science editorial, Prof. Balaram pays rich tributes to Burjorji J. Padshah, one of the men who find a place in one o...

First, some background (if you already know about it, go to the end for the latest info). The Pan-IIT folks created a 'spouses' pro...

Who saved India from the financial crisis? Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Y.V. Reddy, according to Joe Nocera in the NYTimes : But...

Prof. Amartya Sen delivered the concluding remarks at the Pan-IIT Global Conference . Counselling critics of reservation in Indian instit...

Apparently, the location of her program at the PanIIT Global Conference and confusion over what she was going to do (eventually, she just di...

I know it was written over a year ago, but it's never too late to link to Krish Ashok's Facebook Mahabharatha . Reminded of Ashok...