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The Print's ludicrous article on Niraj Bishnoi

Jan 8, 2022 7 min read

The Print has just published a bizarre article about Niraj Bishnoi, the alleged "mastermind" (whatever that means) of the 'Bulli Bai' app. I know nothing about Niraj Bishnoi; the art…

Political merch from a newsroom

Oct 12, 2021 3 min read

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Shekhar Gupta, the editor of The Print, shared the following image on his Instagram profile a couple days ago: The post had the following note: Since we so love politics at ThePrint, we are developi…

Spray and pray – the COVID-19 version

Sep 2, 2020 2 min read

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the head of Biocon, a company headquartered in Bengaluru and which has repurposed a drug called itolizumab – already approved to help manage severe chronic psoriasis in differen…

A trumpet for Ramdev

Feb 7, 2020 3 min read

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The Print published an article entitled 'Ramdev’s Patanjali does a ‘first’, its Sanskrit paper makes it to international journal' on February 5, 2020. Excerpt: In a first, international scien…

Retrospective: The Wire Science in 2019

Dec 28, 2019 4 min read

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At the start of 2019, The Wire Science decided to focus more on issues of science and society, and this is reflected in the year-end list of our best stories (in terms of traffic and engagement; liste…