Category: Editor’s Desk
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Equality: The Forgotten Player in the Red Queen Race of Copyright Policy
Introducing the Red Queen: I was told by my teachers to always start with a story, and what’s better than one from my favourite childhood novel? Most of you might have read ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis Carroll; it includes a scene where Alice, in the strange land that’s designed like a giant…
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A buffet for ‘everyone’
On my smartphone, I can access Google with a single tap. With it, comes an unbound access to loads of information. I can access lecture videos from Stanford and Harvard, and interviews from the wall street sitting on the couch in my living room. Such a buffet of information! But, is that buffet for everyone?…
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Blogosphere and Plurality of Voices
I think Gandhian politics should be the way to the future, and I’m stereotyped as being impractical. The next day, when I say that I feel Nathuram Godse should have been forgiven long back because that’s what Gandhi would have done, the people who called me impractical the previous day come thrashing at me because…
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Drawing Insights from Game Theory to Make Career Decisions
Today’s career paths are widely diverse, but there’s one thing they all have in common: the scarcity of resources. Resources are scarce; they have always been. Be it the amount of time you can devote to a particular career goal, the money you can invest on it, or the energy you can afford to spend…
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Public Intellectuals and Pandemics: Questions and Dilemmata
Ninety-five per cent (95.6%, to be precise) of the submissions we received in the last two weeks were related to the COVID-19 pandemic in some way or the other. We have tried our best to publish the best of them, and shall continue to do so for the upcoming submissions. However, such a trend, a…
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