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Friday, August 26, 2016

The New Yorker on the Deutche Bank's 10 Billion Dollar Scandal

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As always, we go the extra mile to get you the juiciest of excerpts from the actual story : Although the bank’s headquarters remained in Ge...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2016

In Memory of Ramesh Mahadevan

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I am grateful for this break -- just because it allows me to say a silent "thank you" to my dear friend who is no more. I have los...
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"Library of Alexandra"

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Sci-Hub has been making waves. Such huge waves that the AAAS flagship, Science has taken note, with not just one, but three pieces devoted...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

RIP, Ramesh Mahadevan

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Ramesh Mahadevan, a close friend from my grad school days, passed away last night. I'm posting a quick note here to alert some of his fr...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016

An Illustrated History of Free Speech in India

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From Gandhi to Arindam Chaudhuri is the title of this illustrated history. Absolutely great stuff from the Free Speech Journal, appearing a...
Monday, February 29, 2016

"... We [the students] ... declare our resistance"

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When I wrote the post on #StandWithJNU yesterday, I was not aware of a petition that students in IISc and NCBS (and, probably, several othe...
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

#StandWithJNU

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These are depressingly bad times for higher ed institutions in India. If administrators were the victims of authoritarian excess in iconic ...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

"How the Left Won JNU"

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It's a year late, but the excerpts at Scroll.in from Rakesh Batabyal's book JNU: The Making of a University are interesting. Here...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

PhD Dissertation Quality: A Workshop at IISc

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Some of you may know about the DST Centre for Policy Research (DST-CPR) at IISc , which is a part of a network of five Centres set up with f...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan on Nobels and Nationalism

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In The Telegraph today , Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan (who will visit India soon for a vacation and a lecture tour) says a lot of sensible thin...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

QoTD

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The three purposes of the University?--To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr, ...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Blackmail of a gay student at IISc

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Orinam , an LGBT support and advocacy website, carried a report two days ago -- “To the person who wrote the note”: Bengaluru student respon...

Kwame Anthony Appiah on Adultery

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From the Ethicist feature in NYTimes Magazine : Should I Tell My Friend’s Husband That She’s Having an Affair? : ... [If] your assessment i...

When Sir C.V. Raman wanted to learn Russian …

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… he turned to Mr. K. Narayan, a graduate from our Department at IISc waiting to join the Bhilai Steel Plant that was being created [the sto...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Imprint India

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The IMPRINT India initiative website has quite a bit of information about its focus domains each of which is subdivided into several sub-th...
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