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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.
Subhash Gatade
Has Indian Democracy Been Facebooked?
06 Sep 2020
Those who disagreed that the internet would challenge dictatorships have been proven right.
Jai Vipra
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
02 Jul 2019
The central problem with Libra is not that it is not decentralized; it is that it is not accountable to all the people that it will affect.
Prasanth R.
The Fight For Science And Scientific Temper is Tied With the Fight For Justice And Equality”
04 Apr 2019
The Lok Sabha Elections are just a few weeks away and one of the key issues that the progressive sections of society are raising is about the assault on Reason and Science in the last five years.
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#HateHatao, A New App to Report and Fight Hate Crimes
31 Jan 2019
The Hate Hatao app will enable citizens to report to CJP any instances of hate speech, threats, and hate crimes with appropriate evidence—such as a screenshot, video or picture.
Surangya Kaur
Tech Giants Continue to Grow, Startups Failing as Antitrust Laws Fail to Promote Competition
19 Feb 2018
Antitrust laws in India, US, etc are antiquated and ill-equipped to deal with the swathes of data repositories being built by the likes of Google.
Subin Dennis
The Bigger Fool Argument Might Explain the Bitcoin Speculative Bubble
29 Jan 2018
Bitcoins are in the news, with their prices rising to dizzying heights and also frequently crashing in the recent months. Prabir Purkayastha talks about the technology underlying bitcoins.
Surangya Kaur
Technological Advancements and a Belief in Basic Science: The Story of the Nobel Chemistry Prize 2017
07 Oct 2017
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year has been awarded to scientists who developed, for the first time, a technique to visualise biomolecules in their natural configuration.
P.G. Ambedkar
Dalit Entrepreneurs on a Mission to Eradicate Manual Scavenging
29 Aug 2017
Ten deaths in a span of 5 weeks made the government of Delhi completely ban the practice of manual scavenging in the city.
Thomas Claburn
Web inventor Sir Tim Sizes Up Handcuffs for His Creation and World has 2 Weeks to Appeal
22 Jul 2017
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, director of the web standards trendsetter W3C, and Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire, has given his blessing to anti-piracy locks on