Swarnajayanti Fellowships

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Science prizes, wealth location and social signals

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Analysis Op-eds Science Arindam Ghosh Infosys Foundation Infosys Prizes Nobel Prizes Prachi Deshpande privilege Rajan Sankaranarayanan research funding Social Sciences SS Bhatnagar Award Swarnajayanti Fellowships wealth signalling

One count on which I almost always find myself to be an outlier in India is my opinion that the Nobel Prizes and their derivatives belong in the gutter. But while many people in other countries share…

On resource constraints and merit

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Analysis Science Big Science Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Science and Technology India-based Neutrino Observatory ISRO Jadugoda jugaad let teachers teach NASA particle physics R&D funding resource constraint Sabine Hossenfelder Sean Carroll Superconducting Super Collider Swarnajayanti Fellowships transparency Vannevar Bush

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…