Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

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On resource constraints and merit

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In the face of complaints about how so few women have been awarded this year’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships in India, some scientists pushed back asking which of the male laureates who had been selected…

We don't have a problem with the West, we're just obsessed with it

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How much do we not know about what Indian researchers are doing simply because Western scientists haven't written to some of them?…