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Should 'geniuses' be paid extra?

Jul 17, 2022 8 min read

A newsletter named Ideas Sleep Furiously had an essay propounding a "genius basic income" on May 28. Here are the first two paragraphs that capture a not-insignificant portion of the essay&#…

Science prizes, wealth location and social signals

Dec 3, 2020 4 min read

Analysis Op-eds Science Arindam Ghosh Infosys Foundation Infosys Prizes Nobel Prizes Prachi Deshpande privilege Rajan Sankaranarayanan research funding Social Sciences SS Bhatnagar Award Swarnajayanti Fellowships wealth signalling

One count on which I almost always find myself to be an outlier in India is my opinion that the Nobel Prizes and their derivatives belong in the gutter. But while many people in other countries share…

Would you take Epstein's money to fund your research?

Aug 10, 2019 7 min read

Op-eds Science BuzzFeed Central Pollution Control Board ethics Jeffrey Epstein melanoma National green Tribunal nationalism research funding Volkswagen Crohn's disease

Note: Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019. The following post was written before news of his death emerged. In 2016, I attended a talk by a not-unknown environmental activis…

Research funding in India

Oct 31, 2015 1 min read

Uncategorized Department of Biotechnology Department of Science and Technology grant proposals research funding research metrics

After Vidya Krishnan of The Hindu broke the news of the 'Dehradun Declaration', which imposed a startling funding restriction on the Centres for Scientific and Industrial Research, multiple pe…