The majority of Indians identify climate change as a potential threat, according to global surveys. Issues like clean air, water, waste management, etc. have been mentioned in party manifestos, but the BJP’s manifesto is essentially an extension of the previous schemes.

Sending humans to space without an overarching vision to save our future will end up as a mere flag-waving show. The space surrounding the Earth is now becoming a junkyard with defunct satellites and metal debris posing a threat to newly launched space vehicles.

Relying on a baffling mixture of symbols and images, the 2024 calendar claiming to be published by IIT-Kharagpur wrongly propagates that Vedic Aryans were indigenous to the Indus Valley region, and supports 'out-of-India' migration against all evidence.

In recent years, we have seen many such examples of the government intimidating the scholars working in the knowledge sector into silence. While academic freedom is being challenged, defamation lawsuits are becoming tools of harassment.

The ISRO chairman was following the trend of the times when he asserted that several scientific concepts originated in the Vedas and were later celebrated as discoveries of "Western civilisation". But the notion of “civilisational greatness” is irrational.

The shrinking space for science education in India today is worrisome and doesn’t augur well for our overall intellectual and cultural development.

The shrinking space for science education in India today is worrisome and doesn’t augur well for our overall intellectual and cultural development.