Friday, July 19, 2013

Traditional Indian "Joint" Families: Are they quite the paragon of support?

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In a recent post, noted Indian educationist and social commentator Meeta Sengupta has wistfully (as she herself noted) sung paeans to the ...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Noted Women Scientists of India - an attempt at enumeration

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Priya Ravichandran ( @binaryfootprint on Twitter), who is a program manager and writer with the Takshashila Institution, threw a challenge...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Towards infinity and beyond

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On her newly-minted blog, my niece, a budding physician, was reminiscing the other day about the first time she set foot outside her famil...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

In Its Endlessness Life Abounds

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A quick post this morning: I wanted to leave y'all with some beautiful, if poignant, thoughts from India's one of the most beloved p...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Deeeep Rifffftz!!

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Man! Carrying on a conversation on Twitter, especially one in which participants feel passionately, is hard. The restriction of 140 charact...
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Courageous Woman Speaks About Her Rape in India And Official Apathy

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Rape. Sexual Violence against women. Gang rape. Happening daily in the glorious nation of India. I have been expressing my outrage about t...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Science Funding and Future Prosperity of the Nation, All On the Line

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How are y'all doing? Me, I am scared shitless. The exact situation that scientific bodies had warned about last September has finally c...