National Science Day

Review: ‘Decolonial Keywords’ (2026)

Feb 28, 2026 3 min read

Everyone who knows me knows that my intellectual coordinates are defined by scientific ideas, even when they’re about sociology or the humanities. This is why I found a new book, Decolonial Keywords:…

Majorana 1, science journalism, and other things

Feb 28, 2025 8 min read

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While I have many issues with how the Nobel Prizes are put together as an institution, the scientific achievements they have revealed have been some of the funnest concepts I’ve discovered in science,…

Some science prizes are only for men

Feb 22, 2023 3 min read

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Say Someone has won the Nobel Prize for physics, perhaps the most prestigious honour (as awards go) for a physicist. What would it mean for all the future awards given to this Someone? One thing that…

'Aatmanirbharta through science'

Feb 27, 2022 2 min read

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The Week magazine distinguished itself last year by picking Indian Council of Medical Research chief Balram Bhargava as its 'person of the year' for 2021. And now, ahead of National Science Da…

NSD II

Feb 27, 2022 2 min read

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That the Modi government has been able to coopt National Science Day as well as it has speaks only to the occasion’s moral vacuity. India’s National Science Day is the day on which physicist C.V. Rama…