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Academics hide snarky, clever comments in the acknowledgements section -- Meredith Carpenter and Lillian Fritz-Laylin in Slate . The Guar...

Here's a great post at The Guardian by Ally Fogg on why the pardon is "entirely, profoundly wrong" though it "will be we...

The 2013 Margazhi   Music Season in Chennai is going on. My reviews for the Tamil news daily Dinamalar can be read on page 7 in the Chen...

It all started with a post -- Through My Looking Glass -- by Stella James who alleged that she was harassed by a "recently retired...

Freudian slip, or misspeak? In either case, this fabulous fail of a tweet is way too funny: Urged people to start voting early, vote for ...

Dhimant Parekh: Of Rains, Cows and a Picture : "For that moment, we four [three men and a cow] were all in one world, in one picture....

Wildlife photographer, author of Secret Lives , and IISc alumna Natasha Mhatre writes about the hard work that went into the wonderful pott...

Two links. First, from The Telegraph : Carrot for IIT directors : A former IIT director, however, said the new system [of assessing the per...

The charges of sexual harassment against Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal are very serious, and I am amazed that he has tried to "manage...

A neat article on the use of randomized trials in economics research into poverty reduction: The Hyper-Efficient, Highly Scientific Scheme t...

Read first, the earlier post for context. Let us suppose a list has to be made by an academic department with established research progra...

1) An academic department should promote diversity in research (as many topics as its faculty strength). 2) An academic department should pr...

If you can read Tamil, I strongly recommend my co-blogger Arunn's essay on Prof. Rao and his career. * * * Here at IISc, we had a cha...

NYTimes has a long story on Prof. Joy Laskar who was fired by Georgia Tech three years ago for "misusing university funds" and a...

He joins Bharat Ratnas C.V. Raman (1954), M. Visvesvaraya (1955), and Abdul Kalam (1997) to take the S&T count to four (out of forty thr...