The blatant distortions of the Mercator projection and its Eurocentric approach gave rise to several alternatives, particularly among broad-left or progressive cartographers. Fianlly, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. By Prabir Purkayastha Source: Globetrotter Last week, […]
On December 21, 2020, three major publishing houses – Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society – filed a copyright infringement suit against the websites Sci-Hub and Libgen in the Delhi High Court demanding that Sci-Hub and Libgen be completely blocked in India. The publishers claim that Sci-Hub and Libgen are engaged in violating various […]
This year, August 20 – the death anniversary of Narendra Dabholkar – was observed as the ‘National Scientific Temper Day’. In Maharashtra, a week-long series of discussions, meetings and public lectures were organised across schools and colleges in the state, by scientists, educators and students from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Center […]
In the history of industrial pollution in India, disasters like Bhopal and resistances like Thoothukudi are watershed moments. In most other such cases, the disaster is more of a slow, everyday process, while the resistance is slow and rendered invisible by the powers that be. In this series, the GroundXero Science Desk unearths the stories […]
In the history of industrial pollution in India, both Bhopal and Thoothukudi must be seen as watershed moments, either in terms of the disasters themselves, or in terms of the resistances that followed. In most other such cases, the disaster is felt as a slow, everyday process – as something chronic. And the resistance is […]