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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 : Win of Collective Conscience over Religious Jingoism

Current Affairs, Politics & Social, PopularAAP, Amit Shah, Arvind Kejriwal, BJP, CAA, Delhi Assembly Election, Narendra Modi, NRC, Shaheen Bagh

From director’s desk Written by : Jayanta Chakrabarty Illustration by : Suman Choudhury In the beginning of January 2014, I was in Delhi. Dhoom 3 was released in theatres a few days back and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had formed a minority government in a hung assembly with outside support of 8 legislative members of Indian National Congress, with Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was biting the dust instead of being the signal largest party with 31 elected members in an Assembly of 70 seats. It was a tumultuous political situation; it was…

The CRISPR Story : From boon to bane?

Science & TechChina, CRISPR, DNA, Gene, Gene editing, HIV, National Geographic

Written By: Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Department of Plant Science and innovation University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Photo: Shutterstock.com CRISPR is something you must have come across in your science news feed in the last couple of years or so. Even if you have not, you may have seen the big news that took social media by storm – the genome-edited babies in China, Lulu and Nana. One might wonder what is this fuss all about and why is this technique in the news all of a sudden? To make sense of it all its important to delve a little into the…

CAA – NRC : Struggling Economy and the Unconstitutional Dream of Creating a Hindu Nation

Current Affairs, Economics, PopularCAA, Currency, IMF, Indian Economy, LIC, NPR, NRC, Slowdown

Written By: Dr. Trina Biswas Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Photo Credit: shutterstock.com Let me make it clear, this time I want to be on the right side of history. Nowadays so many netizenswould argue that you cannot protest about this incident today since you did not protest about something that happened in 1450 BC, you cannot take the side of that group when you didn’t say anything while the other group was suffering. Yes, I get it, I was wrong. I chose to be silent about something that happed long before…