Elsevier and Wiley declare war on research community in India
Without access to the journals available on websites like Sci-Hub and Libgen, against which the copyright holders have filed a case in the Delhi High Court, it is almost impossible to do quality research
Vaccine rollout battle: First past the post may win major market share
India’s mass vaccination plans may fail if it does not hold open discussions on its plans with health professionals and the people
Three problems of reading Engels and the reasons why we need to
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
Good news on vaccines but what about its delivery?
If we plan to vaccinate the entire Indian people, the states need to be involved in a big way, however, the Modi government has so far centralized all aspects of the management of the epidemic, treating it only as an administrative problem.
Google under fire in US for predatory monopoly practices
Tech monopolies are increasingly being acknowledged as a danger to people, other companies and even to democracy. The regulatory worm seems to be turning in many countries, even in the US where it had gone into hibernation
The 2020 Nobel in Physics and finding a monster of a Black Hole in our galaxy
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was won by Roger Penrose for his work on the theoretical basis of black holes, and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, two astronomers, for verifying the existence of such a black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Even with vaccines, it is a long and rocky road to immunity
Even if the major economies can solve their own problems of procuring the vaccines by jumping the queue with money or captive production capacities, what about the rest of the world?
Worsening epidemic and a sinking economy: Modi’s mid-year balance sheet
Having surrendered before the epidemic, India’s Narendra Modi govt. is hoping that the economy will bail it out. Unfortunately, we are likely to face the worst of both: a worsening epidemic and an economy that continues to shrink