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Sunday, May 31, 2015

2015 May - Interesting Articles & Links

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* On GMOs - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/opinion/sunday/how-i-got-converted-to-gmo-food.html?_r=1 * Intelligent jokes -- http://ww...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Drug Discovery in Noida

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Recently, a small company I admire - Curadev Pharma PL - signed a $555 million deal with Roche , one of the oldest and largest bio-pharma ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Emergency Evacs

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In the aftermath of a natural disaster, is it fair to permit emergency evacuations based on nationality? Five year's ago we faced a s...
Saturday, May 02, 2015

Slippery as an Eel

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Japanese Eel (Image source:Wikipedia) One of the prominent landmarks in Tsukuba Science City is an "Unagi" restaurant on Gak...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

2015 April - Interesting Articles & Links

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* Ram Charan again -- https://in.news.yahoo.com/how-reliable-is-the-world-s-most-influential-business-consultant---r-053927673.html * On...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

On Hexagons

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If you wanted to cover a large flat space with with equal pieces, without leaving any gaps, which shape would you choose? In 300 CE, Papp...
Thursday, April 02, 2015

The Apathy Chronicles

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Science may have found a cure for mos evils; but it has no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." -- Helen Ke...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

2015 March - Interesting Articles & Links

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* On 5G Telephony - http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21646962-5g-mobile-wireless-will-be-faster-fibre-your-phone-ster...
Monday, March 30, 2015

The Power of QA

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How far will you go to buy a quality product? According to the Economist, Chinese tourists are flying in droves to markets in Tokyo to pu...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

IPO - Like a Rock

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In the early 1990's when I visited the Indian Patent Office (IPO) for the first time, it was as gloomy and depressing as any other dysf...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Yella's Discoveries

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One of the simple pleasures of life is to find an Indian-sounding name in a piece of work that touches excellence. Quite often, I fin...
Saturday, March 07, 2015

Merchants of Rosy Imagery

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Joseph Goebbels would have been quite pleased with this illustration. It shows a somewhat effeminate Shah Alam, one of the last Mugh...
Friday, March 06, 2015

Rape and the Criminal Justice System

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Two cases stand in sharp contrast today. Case-I: Dimapur, Nagaland Last month, on 24 Feb., 2015,  an immigrant trader in Dimapur, Naga...
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