Biological warfare experiment Biological warfare experiment in India and the curious case of yellow fever mosquitoes P.K. RajagopalanDid mosquito research in India in the 1970s act as a cover for certain U.S. research projects having a bearing on biological warfare?
Public Health What ails biomedical research P.K. Rajagopalan Research in health sciences in India is no more oriented towards problem-solving based on years of field work, one of the reasons why many old and new
Science Conferences Oh to be a scientist! P.K. RajagopalanScientific conferences have become public relations exercises instead of functioning as spaces where scientific ideas are exchanged and new ideas enco
COVID-19 Vector Bat connection P.K. RajagopalanBasic research into the epidemiology of coronavirus needs to be taken up on a war footing.
Kyasanur Forest Disease Viral challengeP.K. RajagopalanWith Kyasanur forest disease reappearing in new territories, an intensive scientific study is needed to know how the virus enters the forest ecosystem
Public health Mosquito in the ointmentP.K. RAJAGOPALANA U.K.-based biotechnology company is planning a large-scale trial release of modified A. aegypti mosquitoes in Maharashtra though the method has not
Public Health Tracking arbovirusesP.K. RAJAGOPALANBats and other small mammals that chronically harbour viruses act as disease reservoirs, though the exact pathways through which these are transmitted
Public health Zika control, the Ugandan wayP.K. RAJAGOPALANUganda’s success in containing the Zika outbreak is the product of a long history of cutting-edge infectious disease research that resulted in the d
Public health The six-legged enemyP.K. RAJAGOPALANMalaria control in India is seriously affected by the fact that the knowledge once gained through painstaking research and fieldwork by entomologists
Combating a killerDR P.K. RAJAGOPALANThere are no effective vaccines against Japanese encephalitis, but its spread can be controlled in India through vector management.
Has COVID truly exposed the broken global order? Despite the COVID-19 pandemic being a severe and truly global crisis, developed countries continue to act in the interests of Big Pharma instead of fo
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
