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https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/02/pink-chaddi-campaign.html?showComment=1234343820000 nanopolitan: Pink Chaddi campaign This novel protest is being choreographed by the Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women : It does not matter that many of us hav... pink campaign https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2011/02/watson-vs-champs-day-1.html nanopolitan: Watson vs. The Champs: Day 1 Thanks to a good soul called "Rashad8821", we have the video, in two parts. Enjoy. I wish the program skipped the ad-like stuff at th... the champs watson vs day https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/when-you-thought-this-government.html nanopolitan: When you thought this government couldn't stoop any lower ... ... you get this truly vicious assault -- no, make that a murderous attack -- on academics' autonomy. It's high time we started a massiv... thought https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/05/socially-responsible-design.html nanopolitan: Socially responsible design Here's an IHT slide show of some very interesting and inexpensive products -- many of which are life-saving, and all of them life-enhanci... socially responsible design https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/12/azim-premji-foundation-receives-huge.html nanopolitan: Azim Premji Foundation Receives a Huge Gift ... ... from Azim Premji , the chairman of IT outsourcing giant Wipro. The gift is in the form of a transfer of 8.7% stake in Wipro, currently w... azim premji foundation receives huge gift https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-good-are-entrance-exams-in.html?showComment=1150998900000 nanopolitan: How good are entrance exams in 'discovering' merit When asked to define intelligence, some people simply throw up their hands, and define it as 'what intelligence tests measure'! It's not too... how good entrance exams discovering merit https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/12/readers-editor-finds-fault-with-hindu.html nanopolitan: The Readers' Editor finds fault with the Hindu on its coverage of Nandigram Go past the first sentence, and it's as devastating an indictment as is possible for an insider like Readers' Editor K. Narayanan: There w... https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-potential-bestseller-gets-handled.html nanopolitan: How a (potential) bestseller gets handled, gets packaged, and comes alive The publisher pulls the plug on Kaavya Viswanathan's book, NYTimes reports . The purpose of the recall is not stated; will a cleaned up vers... potential bestseller https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/06/mahesh-sharma-fact-checks-iipm-episode.html nanopolitan: Mahesh Sharma fact-checks IIPM - Episode 2 In this episode, Mahesh Sharma of Careers 360 demolishes a new claim by IIPM that its students will receive their BBA and/or MBA degrees ... mahesh sharma fact checks iipm episode https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-one-hand.html?showComment=1338883542532 nanopolitan: On the one hand ... This is how my left hand looks these days -- a result of a wet floor, an uncontrolled slip-slide, a broken finger, and a surgery to patch u... on the one hand https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2012/05/aamir-khans-satyameva-jayate.html?showComment=1336513675774 nanopolitan: Aamir Khan's "Satyameva Jayate" The first episode of the show was devoted to selective abortion of female foetuses. Two bloggers I respect recommend it highly. Here is Ind... aamir khan https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/10/links_08.html nanopolitan: Links ... Pallavi Singh in Mint : Wage Woes: Teach at IITs -- Just for the Joy of It . Paola Giuliano and Luigi Guiso in VoxEU : To trust or not to t... links https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/01/rules-discipline-decorum.html?showComment=1168427700000 nanopolitan: Rules, discipline, decorum Over at Alaphia's post , one of the commenters mentioned Jeppiaar. That comment triggered this post. Every Sunday morning, Sun TV broadca... rules discipline decorum https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/12/death-of-copyrights-is-just-decade-away.html nanopolitan: Death of copyrights is just a decade away! A simple experiment in audience participation reveals to NYTimes tech columnist David Pogue the truth: young people don't give a shit to co... death of copyrights decade away https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/autonomy-how-senior-faculty-at-iits.html?showComment=1253843596619 nanopolitan: Autonomy! How senior faculty at IITs hijacked a junior faculty concern to help... If you have just got a 75 percent raise, how would you look if you threaten to go on a hunger strike asking for a further raise of 2 percent... https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/05/outrage-at-ms-university-baroda.html?showComment=1179312060000 nanopolitan: Protest against the outrage at M.S. University, Baroda I'm sure you have heard about the outrage perpetrated by the chauvinistic goons in the Fine Arts Faculty at M.S. University, Baroda. This ... the outrage m s protest university baroda https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/11/e-mail-etiquette.html nanopolitan: E-mail etiquette After publishing this primer (I linked to it yesterday), Eszter Hargittai says this in her post on Crooked Timber: Of course, one proble... e mail etiquette https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/05/do-we-have-any.html?showComment=1116927720000 nanopolitan: Do we have any? If America has them , so should we, right? Sure enough, we do have them, and guess what, ours still have some way to go before they can mat... we have https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/12/three-new-iits-follow-up.html nanopolitan: Three new IITs: A follow-up They are going to be located in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan. Going by Yogesh's comment on my earlier post , one of these IITs was s... three new iits follow https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/07/wtf-canadian-immigration-edition.html?showComment=1185553560000 nanopolitan: WTF: Canadian immigration edition CBC News has obtained a copy of a letter sent from the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi to Singh's family stating that "the names Kaur ... canadian immigration wtf edition https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/03/of-iits-and-iit-like-entities.html nanopolitan: Of IITs and IIT-like entities This is interesting: A memorandum of understanding between two institutions was signed by director of IIT Ashok Misra and vice-chancellor a... iits like entities https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-iix-faculty-salaries.html nanopolitan: On IIX faculty salaries ... Watch this NDTV episode which I presume was aired on the day of the historic hunger strike by IIT faculty members (24 September 2009). What... faculty salaries https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/03/foreign-universities-bill.html?showComment=1268758286590 nanopolitan: Foreign universities Bill ... ... has got the Cabinet's approval [see also WSJ and NYTimes ]. It did cross this obstacle once before (back in 2007), but failed to make ... foreign universities bill https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2013/01/are-joint-phd-programs-worth-it.html?showComment=1360546589457 nanopolitan: Are Joint PhD Programs Worth It? The Economic Times reports that IIT-M is considering such programs with US universities. IIT Madras, like many top institutions, had a nu... phd programs joint worth https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/07/new-tools-to-detect-plagiarism.html nanopolitan: New tools to detect plagiarism The premier science journal Nature has a special report by Jim Giles on an interesting set of software tools that are likely to be deploye... new tools detect plagiarism https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/11/nicely-done.html nanopolitan: Nicely done ... All the wet dreams of (American) liberals come true! But only in the fake NYTimes . Very nicely done. Here's a story on some of the peopl... nicely done https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/04/sixty-years-of-tifr.html nanopolitan: Sixty years of TIFR The latest issue of Current Science has an article by Prof. B.V. Sreekantan about the history of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Researc... sixty years tifr https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-not-to-ask-for-pay-hike-we-are.html nanopolitan: How not to ask for a pay hike: "We are the people behind the JEE!" The Nature India column -- Pay commission will 'degrade' IIT faculty [free registration required] -- by Aditya Mittal, an associate profes... https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2014/07/experiments-in-higher-ed-fractal.html?showComment=1404830071940 nanopolitan: Experiments in Higher Ed: Fractal Courses at IIT-H IIT-Hyderabad is experimenting with an undergraduate curriculum that contains many, many "single module" or "breadth" courses (typically, on... higher ed experiments fractal courses iit https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/05/it-bhu.html nanopolitan: IT-BHU Sanjay Dani has a guest column at Rediff making a strong case for why IT-BHU (from where I got my Bachelors degree) should become an IIT . ... bhu https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/05/fairness-in-debate.html?showComment=1117441740000 nanopolitan: Fairness in debate Ravikiran Rao has commented on my post on the rhetoric of some right wing bloggers. He cites one of my old posts , in which I approvingly... fairness debate https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/critique-of-plagiarism.html nanopolitan: A critique of plagiarism ... ... except that this critique (in the New York magazine, by David Edelstein) itself is plagiarized from many sources. Intentionally. As... critique plagiarism https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/07/yesterday-great-hero-passed-away.html nanopolitan: Yesterday, a great hero passed away Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy (Dr. V), founder of the Aravind Eye Care System , passed away yesterday at the age of 86. The Hindu has a short... yesterday great hero passed away https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2012/04/two-body-problem-cultural-differences.html nanopolitan: Two Body Problem: Cultural Differences? Sometime last year, we had a great discussion in this post about whether it's better for an academic couple to be upfront about the fact th... two body problem cultural differences https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/04/sad-day-for-virginia-tech.html?showComment=1176811920000 nanopolitan: Sad day for Virginia Tech Two handguns . A deranged man . 32 young lives , extinguished. It's a sad day for all of us. sad day virginia tech https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/10/iit-fas-reps-to-meet-hrd-minister-today.html nanopolitan: IIT FAs' reps to meet HRD Minister today There's some advance information about what the minister is likely to concede: not much. See the stories in The Telegraph and Indian Expres... to meet iit fas reps hrd https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/10/all-that-glitters.html?showComment=1132053660000 nanopolitan: All that glitters ... ... is bad! For Mother Earth. See this long NYTimes report by Jane Perlez and Kirk Johnson for some seriously bad news about how gold is m... all that glitters https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/11/lilavatis-european-daughters.html nanopolitan: Lilavati's European Daughters Women in Science : For much of human history, women were officially excluded from the scientific realm. However, in spite of their invisibi... european daughters https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/12/most-amazing-illusion.html?showComment=1133820600000 nanopolitan: 'The most amazing illusion' Digg.com says so. And, guess what, it is so! the most amazing illusion https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/04/paul-graham-microsoft-is-dead.html nanopolitan: Paul Graham: Microsoft is dead Microsoft cast a shadow over the software world for almost 20 years starting in the late 80s. I can remember when it was IBM before them. I ... paul graham microsoft dead https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-just-in.html nanopolitan: This just in ... Don't argue with idiots; bystanders have a hard time telling the difference. I just read it in this post in Doug Natelson's Nanoscale Vie... https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/analyzing-google.html nanopolitan: Analyzing Google In the last several weeks, there have been a bunch of interesting articles analyzing Google: the company, its swagger, its business, its pro... analyzing google https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/09/inter-academy-report-update.html nanopolitan: Inter-Academy Report: An Update Two blog posts. Both are a must-read. Rahul Siddharthan: The Academies' Report on GM Crops . He publishes a letter written for publication... inter academy report update https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/voltaire.html nanopolitan: Voltaire I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire I support your right to be an asshole, but... voltaire https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/03/news-about-home.html nanopolitan: News about home Update : The information in the Indian Express story turns out to be wrong. See this post for both an update and a rant. *** Hoping to ta... news about https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/autonomy-how-senior-faculty-at-iits.html?showComment=1253855449804 nanopolitan: Autonomy! How senior faculty at IITs hijacked a junior faculty concern to help... If you have just got a 75 percent raise, how would you look if you threaten to go on a hunger strike asking for a further raise of 2 percent... https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/07/wtf-atanu-dey-edition.html?showComment=1185512220000 nanopolitan: WTF: Atanu Dey edition In the US, I noticed that Americans of African descent do much worse than Americans of Jewish descent in most spheres. Jews are expected to ... wtf atanu dey edition https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/galbraith-quotes.html nanopolitan: Galbraith quotes John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) has been credited with many, many quotable quotes. Here is one about conservatives: The modern conservat... galbraith quotes https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/11/krishnakumar-on-pathology-of-policies.html?showComment=1227472980000 nanopolitan: Krishnakumar on the pathology of policies for primary schools The immediate provocation comes from Prof. C.N.R. Rao's outrage at the way six new IITs started academic programs this year. Here's Krishnak... on the for primary krishnakumar pathology policies https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/12/outlook-awards.html nanopolitan: Outlook awards ... ... for dubious distinction . I like them all. But, this one is the best. Hat tip: Shivam Vij . outlook awards https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/autonomy-how-senior-faculty-at-iits.html?showComment=1253879362715 nanopolitan: Autonomy! How senior faculty at IITs hijacked a junior faculty concern to help... If you have just got a 75 percent raise, how would you look if you threaten to go on a hunger strike asking for a further raise of 2 percent... https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/iits-recruiting-european-faculty.html nanopolitan: IITs recruiting European faculty ? Update : There is a slightly better report (with some additional details) in the Indian Express; the positions don't look like they are per... iits recruiting european faculty https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/debate-about-whether-professors-at-iits.html nanopolitan: Debate about whether professors at IITs and IIMs are underpaid Business Standard presents two views . The first is from Gautam Ahuja (Ross School of Business, UMichigan). While he presents a comparison ... debate whether professors https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2011/01/are-physicists-arrogant.html nanopolitan: Are physicists arrogant? Steven Blau weighs in on the matter over at Physics Today Blogs [ Update : I think the real value in Blau's piece is in the link to an ear... physicists arrogant https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/06/links_10.html nanopolitan: Links ... Alex Tabarrok finds a lesson on sampling errors in Elizabeth Pisani's Wisdom of Whores . Whatever happened to our President's request for ... links https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/10/idiot-wind.html nanopolitan: Idiot wind What a classy response from Prof. Rashid Khalidi : We did ask Mr. Khalidi whether he wanted to respond to the [McCain] campaign charges ag... idiot wind https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/love-in-mathematics.html nanopolitan: Love in mathematics Be my multiple, I'll be your factor. This geeky sweet-nothing is the title of Chapter 6 in ... ... Class 5 mathematics text from NCERT!... love mathematics https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/11/two-links-on-financial-crisis.html nanopolitan: Two links on the financial crisis First, an editorial from the Scientific American : After the Crash: How Software Models Doomed the Markets : If Hollywood makes a movie abo... on the two links financial crisis https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/10/ugc-pay-revision-committee-report.html nanopolitan: UGC Pay Revision Committee report: a correction Prof. M. Giridhar , a colleague in the Department of Chemical Engineering, writes in to point out an error in my earlier post . The specific... committee report ugc pay revision correction https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/11/famour-feud.html nanopolitan: Famous feud ... This real-life story is about two highly accomplished doctors who recently ended their nearly 40-year old feud. It reads like a bad novel t... famous feud https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/two-more-interesting-takes-on.html nanopolitan: Two more interesting takes on reservation In an ad, Lenovo urged companies to be "equal opportunity employers", by giving everyone a Thinkpad. On the day (12 May) the election resu... more interesting two takes reservation https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2012/04/r-spending-at-us-universities.html?showComment=1333432305556 nanopolitan: R&D Spending at US Universities The National Science Foundation has released the data for 2010 (2009 data can be found here ). Unsurprisingly, Johns Hopkins tops the list... r d spending us universities https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/debate-continues.html?showComment=1148925420000 nanopolitan: The debate continues ... First, some news. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh struck just the right note when he met the striking medicos two days ago: Dr. Singh told a... the debate continues https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/08/thermodynamics-is-like-parent.html nanopolitan: Thermodynamics is like a parent! An old McSweeny's list compared different physical theories to women in a man's life. For example, 0. Newtonian gravity is your high-schoo... like a thermodynamics parent https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/06/serotonin-neurochemistry-of-perception.html nanopolitan: Serotonin: Neurochemistry of perception of fairness It has been known for a while that people who have taken (through nasal administration, for example) oxytocin are less fearful and more tru... serotonin perception fairness https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/03/future-of-journalism.html?showComment=1173332160000 nanopolitan: Future of journalism Jeff Jarvis in the Hindu (originally published in the Guardian ): AS A journalism professor, I'm asked two questions these days: first, w... future of journalism https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/05/yes-and-bravo-too-prime-minister.html nanopolitan: Yes, (and Bravo, too) Prime Minister! [Via Annie ] : This Sunday Express story about how our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has spent his MP Local Area Development Scheme (MP... yes bravo prime minister https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/work.html nanopolitan: Work First, this: What is the best thing about work? Figuring out how the mind works. Then, this: Our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees, wi... work https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2012/11/links.html nanopolitan: Links The Chronicle of Higher Education has a special issue devoted to Gender in Academe . Women in science is the theme of several articles; sta... links https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/indias-industrial-renaissance.html nanopolitan: India's industrial renaissance Anand Giridharadas has this story in today's NYTimes about the industrial renaissance in India: Here in Tamil Nadu State, where the chang... india industrial renaissance https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-links-on-wikileaks-saga.html nanopolitan: Some links on the Wikileaks saga Tom Slee at Whimsley : WikiLeaks Shines a Light on the Limits of Techno-Politics . Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber : State Power and the Re... some links on the wikileaks saga https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/03/supreme-court-stays-implementation-of.html?showComment=1175324580000 nanopolitan: Supreme Court stays the implementation of OBC quotas Here's the immediate report . In a major setback to the Centre, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the implementation of the 27 per cen... supreme court stays implementation obc quotas https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/03/abel-prize-for-srs-varadhan.html nanopolitan: Abel Prize for S.R.S. Varadhan I would like to join Swarup and Guru in their celebration of Prof. Srinivasa Varadhan's winning this year's Abel Prize . The Science mag... abel prize https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2006/03/porn-in-classroom.html nanopolitan: Porn in the classroom It's called the porn curriculum, and it's quietly taking root in the ivory tower. A small but growing number of scholars are probing the aes... porn in classroom https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2013/04/ nanopolitan: April 2013 april https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/03/ nanopolitan: March 2008 march https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/01/planning-new-university-contrast.html?showComment=1232480580000 nanopolitan: Planning a new university: Contrast between the US and India Here's an excerpt from an e-mail from my friend Vishnu l highlighting the contrast in the way new institutions are created in the US (specif... a new the us planning university https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/11/international-comparisons-of-gender-gap.html?showComment=1226597340000 nanopolitan: International comparisons of gender gap The Global Gender Gap Report - 2008 is available from the World Economic Forum . India's ranked at 113 (out of 130) this year, whereas it s... international comparisons gender gap https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-always-interesting-when.html nanopolitan: It is always interesting when ... ... one of your posts is up for discussion -- in someone else's blog! Two days ago, Wayan Vota's OLPC News blog (which has excellent -- e... it is always interesting https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2014/10/when-nobel-medal-went-to-fargo-north.html nanopolitan: When a Nobel Medal Went to Fargo, North Dakota Astrophysicist and 2011 Nobel winner Brian Schmidt has this totally priceless story : "When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, Nor... nobel medal went fargo north https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/07/breathing-problems-try-eating-right.html nanopolitan: Breathing problems? Try eating right foods. "Teens with the lowest intake of fruit, vitamins C and E, and omega-3 fatty acids had lower lung function and higher reports of respiratory ... breathing problems eating right try foods https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/11/this-sounds-so-familiar.html nanopolitan: This sounds so familiar ... America's Great Scientists Rapidly Decreasing . Sounds familiar? This was the headline of a NYTimes Magazine story from 1910! [By the way... sounds familiar https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/02/first-official-response-to-mashelkar.html nanopolitan: First official response to Mashelkar Panel's report The Mashelkar Panel's report (which we saw in this post ) has drawn the first official response . It is from the Ministry of Chemicals and F... official response first panel report https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/12/bloggercom-does-openid.html nanopolitan: Blogger.com does OpenID! Looks like I spoke too soon yesterday when I said Blogger.com may not be too keen on using the OpenID mechanism for authenticating users' ... blogger openid https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/09/difference-between-teaching-course-and.html nanopolitan: Difference between teaching a course and directing a play Blue offers this insight : A play can't present itself in a "bell curve," with some A sections and some F sections and a bunch of B and C s... difference between a course teaching directing play https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2013/02/prof-p-v-indiresan-is-no-more.html?showComment=1361865463978 nanopolitan: Prof. P. V. Indiresan is no more Prof P.V. Indiresan, former Director of IIT Madras, Padma Bhushan in 2000, member on countless GOI committees and a frequent writer on sever... p v prof https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/03/seema-singh-on-iisc.html nanopolitan: Seema Singh on IISc Curiously, she focuses on our Institute's entrepreneurial initiatives (and their less than stellar track record): In its centenary year, ... seema singh iisc https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2014/08/vishwesha-guttal-on-higher-ed.html?showComment=1408238015432 nanopolitan: Vishwesha Guttal on Higher Ed Regulation in India Over at The Conversation , Vishwesha Guttal, a colleage in the Centre for Ecological Sciences, has a piece on Indian higher ed with a speci... higher ed regulation india https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/10/ncert-textbooks.html nanopolitan: NCERT textbooks They are absolutely amazing compared to the books we got from the Tamil Nadu Board way back in the 1970s [BTW, the TNB books -- available fo... ncert textbooks https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/05/academics-have-best-blog-names.html nanopolitan: Academics have the best blog names The previous post referred to the blog of Prof. B, an anonymous academic, who has a rather in-your-face kind of name for her blog: Bitch, P... the best blog academics names https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/06/do-institutions-and-their-professors.html?showComment=1214260080000 nanopolitan: Do institutions -- and their professors -- have a right to choose? Alternate title: An auction theory of entrance exams! * * * In a thoughtful post , Arunn Narasimhan of IIT-M lays out two possibilities fo... right to institutions https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2005/05/fairness-in-debate.html?showComment=1117565160000 nanopolitan: Fairness in debate Ravikiran Rao has commented on my post on the rhetoric of some right wing bloggers. He cites one of my old posts , in which I approvingly... fairness debate https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/09/attracting-foreign-universities-to.html nanopolitan: Attracting Foreign Universities to India In discussions about foreign universities' interest in India, politicians and pundits keep referring to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and MIT, ev... foreign universities attracting india https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/05/mashelkars-adventurism.html?showComment=1273988994894 nanopolitan: Mashelkar's Adventurism Three links to comments from others; I have nothing to add to whatever I have said here (see also the comments section) and here . [And I'm... https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/02/massive-fraud-chiranjeevi-case.html?showComment=1203661260000 nanopolitan: Massive fraud: The Chiranjeevi case massive fraud chiranjeevi case https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/04/cow-coconut-tree-and-ram-guha.html nanopolitan: Cow, Coconut Tree, and Ram Guha Here's the story about the cow and the coconut tree (I have heard it in several other variations as well, but this will do for the moment):... coconut tree cow ram guha https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2008/08/links.html nanopolitan: Links ... A mini debate on Prof. M.S. Ananth's views on the need to reform the JEE: For and Against . Olivia Judson: Feel the Eyes Upon You . Seth... links https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/meanwhile-at-niper-whistleblower-is-in.html nanopolitan: Meanwhile at NIPER, a whistleblower is in trouble The Telegraph 's G. Mudur recounts a distressing story about a whistleblower getting the stick ; an inquiry committee has now asked the inst... is in meanwhile whistleblower trouble https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2010/01/website-for-new-faculty-at-iisc.html?showComment=1264005206672 nanopolitan: Website for new faculty at IISc An excellent initiative . The site packs tons of useful stuff that'll make life a lot easier for a new faculty member (or even an old one... for new faculty iisc https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2007/03/laughter-research.html nanopolitan: Laughter research Sidebar This video is both funny and interesting ; the blurb says it examines "the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philoso... laughter research