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What’s ailing the Indian Railways?
https://rootprivileges.net/2024/10/20/whats-ailing-the-indian-railways/
Published: October 20, 2024 04:43
‘What are the stress factors for Indian Railways?’, The Hindu, October 20, 2024: The operating ratio (OR) — the amount the Railways spends to earn ₹100 — in 2024-2025 is estimated to be ₹98.2, a small improvement from 2023-2024 (₹98.7) but a decline from…
Hello world!
https://rootprivileges.net/2024/10/11/hello-world/
Published: October 11, 2024 16:08
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
On the 2024 Nobel Prizes and the Rosalind Lee issue
https://closeread.ghost.io/2024/10/10/on-the-2024-nobel-prizes-and-the-rosalind-lee-issue/
Published: October 10, 2024 02:30
The Nobel Prizes are a deeply flawed institution both out of touch with science as it is done today and with an outsized influence on scientific practice at the most demanding levels. Yet these relationships all persist with the prizes continuing to crown…
Automattic off the rails
https://closeread.ghost.io/2024/10/04/automattic-off-the-rails/
Published: October 4, 2024 09:47
Either Matt Mullenweg's screws have fallen off or I deeply overestimated how sensible a person I thought he was. On October 3, Mullenweg wrote on his blog that Automattic had offered those of its employees who disagreed with his actions vis-à -vis WP Engine…
Numbed by numbers
https://closeread.ghost.io/2024/10/04/numbed-by-numbers/
Published: October 4, 2024 07:44
Couple things in my news feed this morning that really woke me up — one a startling statistic and the other a reminder of what statistics miss. The first from Nature, 'How to win a Nobel prize: what kind of scientist scoops medals?':John W. Strutt, who won
New salvo to politically capture academia
https://closeread.ghost.io/2024/10/01/new-salvo-to-politically-capture-academia/
Published: October 1, 2024 04:02
From my article in The Hindu today, New science awards, old political project:The government has been trying repeatedly to shut … the opposition to its policies and world view emanating from academia, a space the Hindutva programme has thus far failed to…
Review: 'Maharaja' (2024)
https://closeread.ghost.io/2024/09/30/review-maharaja-2024/
Published: September 30, 2024 07:04
Spoilers abound; trigger warning: sexual violenceIn case you haven't watched the film and don't plan to, you can check out the plot description on Wikipedia.Maharaja was bad for two reasons.First, good films don’t lie to their viewers. Maharaja did in two
The frustrating wait for quiet in Chennai
https://closeread.ghost.io/2024/09/30/the-frustrating-quest-to-find-quiet-in-chennai/
Published: September 30, 2024 02:30
Deepavali is less than a month away — then again it will only be a storm amid a steady drizzle of sounds that just won’t abate