Science & Technology
Global Vaccine Divide: Covid-19 Pandemic and Opportunity for India
As the novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) pandemic is raging across the world, a race has already ensued for the discovery of a vaccine. Normally,...
Coronavirus in a Time of Chimeras
As the global COVID-19 scourge appears to recede, questions remain over the source and morphology of a virus that had locked down two-thirds of...
India’s Digitalization: Big Data is the New Oil
Over the last few years, India has travelled the path of rapid digitalization. Not only has the current crisis failed to stop this process,...
Business and the State: Together into the Brave “Cyber World”?
Traditionally, private companies have advocated minimal government intervention into their activities. Yet, starting in 2019, the situation began to change radically. Today, global business...
The shift to online learning and skills training shows promising trends and troubling signs
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an abrupt transition to distance education, training and e-learning. The crisis has resulted in massive shifts to online platforms...
COVID19 and a need for a paradigm shift in the field of academia
Almost four months of 2020 have just been passed till now but all these months went like a ride on a roller-coaster. From Bush...
Digital Societies: From Social Media to Star Wars
The rise of digital societies around the globe is the natural by-product of humankind's insistence on efficiency, which started with the industrial revolution, when...
Stopping COVID-19 in Its Tracks: Science Gets the Upper Hand
Science has knocked religion and traditional healing methods out of the ring in the battle between rival approaches towards getting the coronavirus pandemic under...
The World After COVID-19: Does Transparent Mean Healthy?
The insanity of despair and primaeval fear for one's health (and today, no matter how ironic and paradoxical it sounds, this may be the...
What is more disruptive with the AI: Its dark potentials or our (anti-Intellectual) Ignorance?
Throughout the most of human evolution both
progress as well as its horizontal transmission was extremely slow, occasional
and tedious a process. Well into the classic...