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An important article: Only 1/21 swarnajayanti fellowship awardees were women. Could it be a problem of resource availability & allocation problem, or is it just sexism? (1/4)https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/swarnajayanti-fellowsh
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Big Brother is out of control.* Universities now need govt permission to hold 'international' seminars, conferences etc* Participant list needs govt approval* MEA political clearance needed if topic is India's
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By selling crops below MSP, farmers have been denied income of Rs 1,900 crore in the last 2 monthsPrices for crops like jowar and bajra were below MSP by as
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"In fact, that is a strength of India, because our policymakers did a remarkable thing at the time of green revolution — they introduced a minimum support price. That is
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Extremely disappointed that @POTUS held a call with the fascist PM of India without calling him out for his regime's brutal suppression of millions of Muslim minorities.Unacceptable and appalling for
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Silence is complicity. There is a tendency to either portray everyone as a Punjabi male farmer, or disparage the movement as a rich farmers movement. #NodeepKaur crystallises a militancy that
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Chapter 1 of the Economic Survey 2020-21 (https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/economicsurvey/ ): a glowing report on the govt's handling of the COVID crisis, and a case study in what happens when science is abandoned
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The ancient wisdom of #Vedas.l.. the first words spoken by Man.. passed on fm Guru to Sishya - orally.Older than any other text or any religion, still relevant as greatest
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My piece in The Wire on the third national serosurvey. The headline (~21% prevalence) is probably not a major underestimate. Apparently the antibody test used was less vulnerable to missing
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So why is the government so focused on Love Jihad in UP when it faces a massive threat on the farm bills? Well, the two are somewhat connected.Thread+ Chaudhary Charan
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Delhi #COVID19 update. Looking at cases, Delhi - like Mumbai - is "stuck". Peak has passed, but there's been no clear descent for the past one month.Corrected test positivity is
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The story of Gilly-Gilly, the Egyptian magician who took Europe by storm... His real name was Dessouqi Hussein Mohammed. He started his career in 1910s Cairo and Alexandria doing tricks
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"Personal liberty."https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1327506427514998784 "Personal liberty."https://m.thewire.in/article/rights/sudha-bharadwaj-heart-disease-byculla-jail-covid-19/amp?__twitter_impression=true &quo
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It's the publishing houses vs. sci-hub and libgen. 1/nhttps://thewire.in/law/sci-hub-elsevier-delhi-high-court-access-medical-literature-scientific-publishing-access-inequity Without going into the nuts and bolts of copyrights , it woul
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Since Jan 28, the police have filed FIRs against 9 Indian journalists nationwide. Details in this thread. Sedition and charges under 6 other sections of the law were filed in
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Some great articles by great journalists debunking “Love Jihad”. “A Hindu girl marrying a Muslim in today’s forward looking world would ordinarily be taken as a simple inter-faith marriage. But
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