Archive for December, 2010

The decade of biology?
December 23, 2010, No Comments

The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in telecommunications, particularly the Internet and mobile telepho ...

Open notebook science
December 23, 2010, 2 Comments

Akshat recently blogged about science blogging as a new frontier in communicating science to the public (including both ...

Roy v. Abdullah
December 22, 2010, 1 Comment

A few months ago we witnessed a national outrage over Arundhati Roy’s opportunistic comments on how Kashmir was allege ...

Regulating the Media
December 22, 2010, No Comments

This last year has been witness to some particularly interesting debates on regulation of various professional bodies in ...

We don’t need no Unique I.D
December 19, 2010, 8 Comments

Nandan Nilekani’s Unique Identification Scheme bothers me. Isn’t it interesting how modernity has meant the use of � ...

Sino-Indian Ties: Thinking Beyond Wen
December 18, 2010, 4 Comments

How India can counter an aggrandizing China in the 21st Century

Of Gods and Men- Movie Review
December 17, 2010, 5 Comments

I recently watched the French Movie, “Of Gods and Men” directed by Xavier Beauvois . It is possibly one of t ...

Diallo: Part Two
December 15, 2010, 3 Comments

In the previous post, we had introduced the recent ruling of the International Court of Justice in Ahmadou Sadio Diallo, ...

Of Kagawa, Sahin and Borussia Dortmund
December 12, 2010, No Comments

Borussia Dortmund fit the modern-day prototype with panache. Tuned to a 4-2-3-1, the Borussians play with a high defensi ...

Section 493 and ‘Belief’ of Marriage
December 12, 2010, No Comments

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, the division Bench has been divided on a very interesting issue of statutory ...