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Where the atmanirbharta in spine?

Oct 22, 2021 2 min read

Truth be told, I didn't expect CSIR chief Shekhar Mande could be so disingenuous. "India didn't have to depend on western countries," he says. What is this abject refusal to thank ot…

Review: 'Mission Mangal' (2019)

Aug 18, 2019 6 min read

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This review assumes Tanul Thakur’s review as a preamble. There's the argument that ISRO isn't doing much by way of public outreach and trust in the media is at a low, and for many people – mo…

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

Jan 29, 2018 2 min read

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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?…