2023

by B.R. Shete & G.V Wamane *
Introduction:
The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has been one of the major issues affecting the region and its people in recent years. On February 24th, 2022, Russia launched a comprehensive military offensive against Ukraine. This has led to the loss of thousands of lives and injuries to many others. The individuals who are being impacted the most by these developments are women, children, and the youth. The impact of the conflict on Ukrainian (…)

by Kateryna Semchuk
6 April 2023,
Ukraine has been forced to cut school grants and local authorities are now scrambling to fund teachers’ wages
Russia’s invasion is forcing the Ukrainian government to implement austerity measures in the education sector – as the country’s teachers express concerns about a cost of living crisis.
Interviews with local officials, teachers and trade union activists in Ukraine reveal the extent of the cuts instituted by the Ukrainian government.
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by Laura Trujillo Estrada & Agustina María Torres Prioris *
March 29, 2023
Have you ever wondered why when we see someone yawn, we yawn almost immediately? Or how newborns imitate facial gestures like sticking out their tongue? And what about how we learn to use scissors or to colour?
It all has a lot to do with a particular type of neuron called “mirror neurons”. What are mirror neurons?
Mirror neurons are amazing neurons that participate in important processes such as (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Jadoowallahas, Jugglers, and Jinns:
A Magical History of India
by John Zubrzycki
Pan Macmillan India — Picador India Pages: 508 ISBN 9789386215352 __0__
Magic, in case you did not know, is as old as India. Indeed, the blurred boundaries between magic, mythology and religion continue to be the defining feature of Indian enchantment, the origins of which go back to the start of the Harappan civilization nearly 5,000 years ago. Australian diplomat-turned-writer John (…)

BOOK REVIEW
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Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados by Nicole Charles
Duke University Press 2021. xi + 196 pp. $25.95 (paper) ISBN 978-1-4780-1763-9.
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Reviewed by Paula Larsson (University of Oxford)
Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados is a short but gripping ethnographic study exploring the manifestation of suspicion as it relates to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (…)

* Science As a Cultural Ideal | Ravi Sinha
* Govt’s hostile to peaceful protests | S G Vombatkere
* Declare Right to Health a Fundamental Right | Arun Mitra
* Concerned Historians Statement on the Recent Changes Made by the NCERT in School Textbooks

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 8, 2023
Congress party led governments in the states of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh have recently brought in commendable public welfare legislation that need recognition. In late March this year, the Rajasthan assembly passed the ‘Right to Health Bill’ (RTH), which guarantees a right to free healthcare for the state’s 80 million citizens. It requires that no hospitals turn away needy patients & deny ‘emergency’ treatment and the costs (…)

by Ravi Sinha •
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This talk was originally planned for the Science Day, but I hope what I am going to say will be relevant for all the other days too. On February 28, 1928, C V Raman (1888 — 1970) along with his student, K S Krishnan (1898 — 1961), discovered what is known as the Raman Effect. Raman was awarded the physics Nobel Prize in 1930 for the discovery. Since 1987, this day has been celebrated in India as the National Science Day.
Science in the Indian subcontinent experienced (…)

Citizens protesting against felling of trees are pejoratively called “environmental activists”, “buddhijeevi-andolanjeevi”, and worse, by a certain section of politicians and people. Transcending political ideology, state and central governments, and powerful persons intoxicated with the promise of money flowing out of the current model of development, view all public protests with undisguised hostility.
Bengaluru police demonstrated government-sanctioned hostility when it booked criminal (…)

The Passing of the Right to Health Bill by the Rajasthan Assembly is a long overdue requirement of the citizens and a demand of the health care organizations. This Act gives the residents of Rajasthan right to free healthcare. The right to health thus becomes justiciable, that is the government is now answerable in the eyes of law. The Act primarily puts the onus on the state to ensure healthcare to the people through the guarantee of nutrition, safe drinking water, sewerage facilities etc. (…)