Samanth Subramanian

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To be Indian is to set records

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Analysis Culture Science Bharatiya Janata Party gigantism Guinness Book of World Records Limca Book of Records postcolonial identity Prime Minister Narendra Modi Republic Day Samanth Subramanian Shubhanshu Shukla Sohan Rai space programme Vinay Lal world records

For all the ways in which the Indian people are divided these days, they're seemingly united in their desire to set records. On January 22, a tinkerer named Sohan Rai, a.k.a. “Zikiguy”, said on In…

Curious Bends – expanding nuclear power, the Bombay Blood Group, doubting the tobacco-cancer link & more

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Uncategorized Bombay blood group carcinogens Chhattisgarh sterilization tragedy forest laws nuclear fuel reprocessing Nuclear power public health Samanth Subramanian tobacco tribal welfare

1. India's new forest laws are criminalising tribes' once-normal livelihoods "India has forest coverage of 23% and more than 200 million live in and around these forests and depend on th…