• Kapil Subramanian

    ... is a historian of science. He is writing a new history of the Green Revolution.

The Hirakud dam, for all its gigantism, could not ensure its irrigation potential was fulfilled. It was impeded by an even sturdier barrier than itself — local belief. | PTI
Vivisection — albeit pejoratively connoting torture and exploitation of living animals — is essentially a method of experimentation for studying physiology and anatomical structure. It has been a crucial contributor to the modern understanding of the human body. | 'Physiological Demonstration with Vivisection of a Dog' (1832) by Emile-Edouard Mouchy
There is not much of a gap between the best time to sow wheat and harvest rice. Farmers, therefore, resort to simply burning residual stubble. | PTI
Groundwater is ultimately a utility, not a commodity to quench the thirst for exploration for its own sake. | Ashoke Chakrabarty
As Vincent Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' (1889) seems to depict, a psychotic state of mind is very similar — or, looks eerily similar on canvas, at any rate — to a dream state. | Wikipedia
The struggle that the TMT faced in Hawaiian court is akin to the fight that scientific institutions must continue to brave in a protester-driven democracy. | Artist's impression
If you don't find what you expect to find, does that mean it's not there or that you expected wrongly? | AURORE SIMONNET/SONOMA STATE/CALTECH/MIT/LIGO