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Gifts of the non-patenters
6 Feb 2016 3:17 AM ISTEvery time I click on a website, and I do that dozens of times a day, I send a silent thank you to Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He was the scientist who...
A bullet train for traders
15 Jan 2016 2:24 AM ISTOn this score at least, you cannot fault with Narendra Modi. He is fulfilling the election promise made by his party to launch bullet trains in India...
Strangling the RTI ever so neatly
16 Oct 2015 2:57 AM ISTWhere does the right to information (RTI) begin and die? What constitutes public interest and when do privacy issues override them? These questions...
Modi sedates the farmer
22 Sept 2015 3:55 AM ISTThis Independence Day, farmers were singled out for special honour by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. From the ramparts of the Red Fort, he announced...
GOVT sedates the farmer
5 Sept 2015 4:03 AM ISTThis Independence Day, farmers were singled out for special honour by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. From the ramparts of the Red Fort, he announced...
Strangling the Right to Information
7 July 2015 5:14 AM ISTWhere does the right to information (RTI) begin and die? What constitutes public interest and when do privacy issues override them? These questions...
Finally, a US revolt on drug price
5 July 2015 3:42 AM ISTGilead sciences became the poster boy for high drug prices when it launched <g data-gr-id="43" style="display: inline; color: inherit !important;...
Trans Pacific squeeze on India?
4 July 2015 3:45 AM ISTFor a long while, it was a distant bogey, a creature whose form was indeterminate and whose characteristics were shrouded in secrecy. Subsequently, a...
WTO gives India a clean chit
17 Jun 2015 3:25 AM ISTIndia’s intellectual property rights (IPR) regime, under constant attack from the US and multinational companies (MNCs) over the past few years, has...
It’s silly to have an IPR course in school
14 Jun 2015 4:02 AM ISTThe US takes its evangelism seriously. Whether it’s the think tanks, academia, the Peace Corps, diplomatic missions or the Moral Re-Armament, they all...
Mindless on the Maoist situation
11 Jun 2015 4:16 AM ISTAmong the amazing things that Narendra Modi has said and done in the past year as the Prime Minister of India must rank his visit to Dantewada in...
Jana roils the neutrality debate
9 Jun 2015 4:28 AM ISTWhen Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, toured India in October last year he was royalty. He met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the...