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Our planet is 71% water, and yet is called ‘earth’. The depths of the oceans remain the last frontier because we still do not know what lives there
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Pramod Nayar is the only Indian academic on the Board.
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This pilot project, running for 16 weeks from Aug to Nov, seeks to provide mentorship and guidance to young people and students as they navigate various challenges and opportunities in today's world.
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Untenable, in fact downright dangerous, homes have become a reality for those living in degraded environments
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Care and companionship can now be assigned to Social Robots
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By Pramod K Nayar Some years ago Finland announced plans to build its 6th nuclear reactor at Hanhikivi Cape in Pyhäjoki. Besides the usual protests, which many countries have seen, against nuclear power and atomic testing, Finland saw an interesting response — from artists. Curie’s Children A group of artists including Erich berger, Charlotte Clark, Mari Keski-Korsu, Christina […]
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DNA profiling generates genetically imagined communities, as the search moves from individual to family, community and race
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By Pramod K Nayar “Not a spot is to be left without some marks of blood and carnage”. The 20th century poet Wilfred Owen, who had encountered war as a soldier, said that his subject is not poetry but war and the pity of war. The poetry, he said, is in the pity. How best to […]
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Hyderabad: Bringing forth the vulnerability and uncertainty of an Alzheimer’s patient, Prof Pramod K Nayar, faculty in Department of English, University of Hyderabad (UoH) has authored a new book, Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs: Poetics of the Forgetting Self, published by Springer. The book examines writings by persons in the early stages of AD and biographies of […]
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By Pramod K Nayar The much-criticised Nazis developed a test for ascertaining the degree of Aryanness or Jewishness. With the eugenics movement and its associate, Social Darwinism, as ideological foundations, this quantification of ancestry, belonging and kinship enabled the Nazis to target, deny and exterminate those whose blood was not pure enough. The concern with […]
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By Pramod K Nayar How wars and their disastrous effects are remembered varies from culture to culture. Memory-making, especially collective memory, is a political act. Some destructions are more important than others. Some victims are greater victims – this is, after all, the age of competing victimhood – than others. The discourse of victimhood, controlled […]
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By Pramod K Nayar Every year when the academic and institutional rankings season comes around, academic managers experience bouts of uncertainty — and this is not (only) because their institution did not score high on various performance parameters, but because select individuals in their institutions did. These individuals aced all sorts of performance metrics. So why the […]
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By Pramod K Nayar In the fact-free, post-truth world, the entrenchment of subjective truth as the only one that counts has become prominent. Relativism of the type ‘you can’t know my pain’, the insistence that only the personal is political — in an inversion of the feminist slogan — lays the foundation for discussing what counts […]
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By Pramod K Nayar “You…have a natural flair for justice, and that has led to your having a natural flair for crime”. “It was feeling…It wasn’t really…logical deduction. It was based on a kind of emotional reaction or susceptibility to – well, I can only call it atmosphere”. These two quotes between them encapsulate the […]
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By Pramod K Nayar A film set in High Royds Hospital, Yorkshire, gives us three repeated motifs: visuals of confetti/snowflakes, music/poetry cut into by grating sounds, and visuals of doors. The film poem, Black Daisies for the Bride (1993), by Tony Harrison, made waves when it was published, and the film, directed by Peter Symes, […]
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The world is now the subject of extensive and intensive documentation, especially of atrocity
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Urges graduates to elect Palla Rajeshwar Reddy as MLC in upcoming polls
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As the virus evades borders, the characteristic tropes to describe the year just done, must be motility and speed
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Wasteland was what home was not but is creeping in now with impossible pollution levels and progressive desertification
