COVID-19 epidemic - Fresh Lime Soda

The 'one billion doses' hype

Oct 22, 2021 2 min read

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed India's people 10 times during the country's COVID-19 epidemic. This is fairly regular but also not frequent – that is, Modi's addresses are some…

On The Lancet editorial

May 19, 2021 2 min read

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On May 8, The Lancet published an editorial criticising the Narendra Modi government's response to India's second COVID-19 outbreak, which has been redefining the meaning of 'snafu'. A…

A future obscured by exponential growth

Oct 17, 2020 6 min read

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A couple months into the COVID-19 pandemic, I think most of us realised how hard it is to comprehend the phenomenon of exponential growth. Mathematically, it's trivial – a geometric progression –…

India's missing research papers

Aug 9, 2020 2 min read

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If you're looking for a quantification (although you shouldn't) of the extent to which science is being conducted by press releases in India at the moment, consider the following list of studi…