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India's apex scientific research body is facing flak after questionably hiring and firing an expatriate scientist. Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju ponders over CSIR's policy on such recruitments.
As the world remembers the father of the Green Revolution Norman Borlaug, India's leading agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan says his pledge to make hunger history must be taken to its logical conclusion. Only that would be a fitting tribute to the famine fighter.
Amidst the raging debate over the success of India's 1998 nuclear tests in Pokhran, former BARC scientist Nataraja Sarma fires another salvo – that its 'fizzling out' had been chronicled many years earlier by scientific bodies in India, US and the UK.
As faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology across the country go on leave to protest against the Indian government's Sixth Pay Commission, Aditya Mittal gives an insider's analysis of what these recommendations could mean.
Why is 'innovation' suddenly so hot? And where does India stand in the global race to embrace inclusive innovation? Raghunath Anant Mashelkar analyses the trend and suggests ways to make the most of it.
After three decades at the University of Hyderabad followed by his move to the Indian Institute of Science last month, Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju prescribes mega doses of 'democracy' to bring life back into India's ailing University system.
Their new method to produce beta cells in the laboratory might just be the next big step in the hunt for a cure for diabetes, say Anandwardhan Awadhoot Hardikar and David Tosh.
