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The hacking of a girl student on the campus was horrific and symptomatic of our problems.  There are no arguments that we (barring few pock...

When I shifted to the new flats (some call it Mall View Apartments as we face the mall on the Nelson Mandela marg), I was little apprehensi...

I visited one of our projects yesterday. The project runs non-formal education centers in slums around Bhatti Mines area in Delhi. We have ...

The week that Julia Gillard spoke out against sexism and misogyny, we in India were witness to our leaders proclaiming that the marriageabl...

There is a letter in Science by Mark S. Cohen wherein he argues that it is bad advice to ask young postdocs and graduate students to seek p...

Prof CNR Rao has been making headlines for the wrong reasons.  Of course he has told the newspapers that it was not his fault but the fault ...

He was a molecular biologist and an Indian- the scientist who was pointed out to us when I was doing M.Sc. He had of course won the Nobel Pr...