Resolving Contradictions Within the People
In the social context, when it comes to the process of organising the masses, imbuing them with revolutionary ideas, consolidating the vanguard class into a revolutionary party, rallying the broad...
D.D. Kosambi: The Pioneer of the Marxist School of Indian Historiography
History is the development in chronological order of successive changes in the means and relations of production. - D.D. Kosambi (History and Society) Very few intellectuals have left as profound...
Through Science and Rationalism, Prof. JV Narlikar Lives On
His motivation to challenge pseudoscience came from the belief system of questioning everything lacking a scientific basis.”, said astronomer Somak Raychaudhary about Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, a renowned Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar...
Space, Science, and Surveillance
A symptom of a capitalist economy is the privatisation of knowledge. Privatisation of education, privatisation of access to knowledge, and privatisation of research. Increasingly, Indian space research has been shifted...
Insidious Exclusions- Fate of Science in the Age of Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskars
Since coming to power in 2014 the BJP with the ideological backing of RSS has continuously attacked scientific institutions and scientific temperament and is trying to use science and scientists...
Sick Healthcare System of Karnataka
The trend of underfunding healthcare in Karnataka has continued in the 2024-25 session as well. Right now around 4% of the total budget has been allocated for healthcare, similar to...
The Origin of Family and Private Property
Primitive Communism The first socio-economic formation in the development of society is primitive society, which formed when humans were in the process of evolving away from the animal world. It...
Why is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution an Anathema to the Religionists? – Our Task
However, we cannot wash our hands off simply by criticizing the banishment of evolution from school curriculum in India and Bangladesh. The BJP has done what it is expected to...
Why is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution an Anathema to the Religionists? – Part VII
In part 6 the author explains how biology can be understood in essence only when it is learnt through the lens of evolution. Lack of a correct scientific approach paves...
Why is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution an Anathema to the Religionists?- Part V
[In part 4, the author explains the meaning of random variables that forms one of the pillars of Mathematics. He went on to show that Charles Darwin was the first...