All posts by Ashutosh

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Science in India: Moon shot or bust?
March 1, 2012, 5 Comments

This week’s issue of Science has a special set of articles on science in India which highlights both the pitfalls ...

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Fraud in a glass of wine: The case of Dipak Das
February 15, 2012, 1 Comment

One of the biggest stories in biomedical research during the last decade has been the discovery that certain molecules c ...

Time to make science popularization popular
June 3, 2011, 6 Comments

Back when I was in college, “science popularization” was a dirty phrase. Popularizing science was considered ...

A singular lament
April 18, 2011, 2 Comments

When I was in high school I used to play keyboards in a band. While my own sweet PSR series Yamaha gave me much pleasure ...

How a college student can derive the RNA world hypothesis from scratch
March 29, 2011, Comments Off

One of the greatest breakthroughs in twentieth century biology was the finding that RNA can serve as a catalyst and driv ...

“Shine during the day, and let me shine at night”
February 3, 2011, 8 Comments

After the sound of my parents’ voice, his voice is among the first ones I distinctly remember hearing after being ...

Science education in India: Light after the tunnel or tunneling away from the light?
February 2, 2011, 4 Comments

This is a reprint of a post I wrote on an old blog a few years ago. Many of the points discussed in the post seem as rel ...

An intimate portrait of India’s people and their relationships
January 11, 2011, 2 Comments

In “India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking”, Anand Giridharadas takes a different ...

In defense of rote
November 13, 2010, 7 Comments

Comparing American and Indian education systems can be a tricky endeavor since many cultural and educational specifics i ...

A limitless life
October 28, 2010, 3 Comments

The Indian chemist Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao (known as C N R Rao) is one of the foremost solid-state and materia ...