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Rashme Sehgal
If Restaurants Close for Covid, Political Rallies Should Too: Dr. Shahid Jameel
15 Apr 2021
The leading virologist says a scientific policy to control COVID-19 is hampered by mixed messages, poor communication, rumours and lack of transparency.
Prabir Purkayastha
Vaccine Wars, the ASEAN and the Quad
20 Mar 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic demands that all nations cooperate to vaccinate the entire global population. The usual rules of which countries win and which ones lose do not operate in this civilisational…
D Raghunandan
STIP2020: An Untied Balloon, Pursuing its Own Vague Course
07 Feb 2021
The vision and aims of the proposed policy are garbled with no attempt to locate it in the current global and national industrial and technological scenarios.
Sonali Kolhatkar
The COVID-19 Pandemic Can’t Be Managed—It Has to Be Eradicated
30 Jan 2021
The real answer to our dire situation is maddeningly obvious: adopt a strong elimination strategy rather than trying to chaotically manage a disease that is overwhelming us.
April M. Short
War Is Not Innate to Humanity, Says Historical Anthropologist
21 Jan 2021
Brian Ferguson’s research on the origins of war, going back to the beginning of human history and our closest ape relatives, suggests war is not part of our evolution.
Prabir Purkayastha
Three Problems of Reading Engels and the Reasons Why We Need To
27 Nov 2020
On this bicentenary of Friedrich Engels, we need to understand the nature of the struggle of ideas that Engels was engaged in his times, and what its significance is today.
Sandipan Talukdar
The Mysterious Case of a Man Who can Read Letters but not Numerals
06 Aug 2020
The finding reveals the fact that much of the human brain remains to be understood. It also implies that cognitive functions of the brain and our visual senses might not be directly linked.
Saurav Kumar
The Brain Behind Tejas Takes Science to Rural Bihar
03 Nov 2019
Verma’s journey—from being an eminent scientist for the nation’s premier defence research organisation to an educationist working in the rural region—is inspiring.
Prabir Purkayastha
Rakhigarhi Skeleton DNA: Indus Valley People Not Rig-Vedic Aryans
30 Sep 2019
Demolishing the RSS belief, ancient DNA evidence shows that the Indus Valley Civilisation was not created by the Rig Vedic Aryans.
Newsclick Team
Spreading Misinformation Is a Crime: Devendra Mewari
24 Sep 2019
We must spread the truth about science. Science should be made accessible to everyone.