Dilip D'Souza
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Mumbai, MH, India
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What I saw behind the scenes at the Bharat Jodo Yatra: a poster relay, pleas for photos – and a vase
Two days on the road with the Congress march for unity. → Read More
Celebration of an obliteration
DART could transmit only part of its final image before it slammed into Dimorphos → Read More
How a lagoon in Gujarat’s Toraniya shows up the government’s fake claims about the Narmada project
Two decades before the contested Sardar Sarovar dam brought water to dry parts of the state, a group of dedicated activists delivered on a small promise. → Read More
WHO’s right about covid numbers?
This government has, we hear, been ‘transparent in its approach’ to managing covid data → Read More
There Is Power In Those Cones
A mathematical law describes the formation and shape of pointed things we see in nature → Read More
Spacecraft kamikaze to defend earth
Can we intercept an asteroid that’s going to collide with the Earth? → Read More
In the Florida Keys, a chance encounter and a shark named Rohan
An idyllic holiday takes an unforeseen turn. → Read More
Things we owe to the parallax effect
We can more precisely calculate the Hubble Constant using parallax → Read More
Keep calm and be greedy, sometimes
Greedy algorithms are valuable tools as they give us workable solutions → Read More
The charm of an endless series of series
One can extract sequences from numbers, apply logic and search for meaning in that series → Read More
When the whistle blows two billion doses
The claim of producing 2 billion doses the by December 2021 seems unrealistic → Read More
Take this 20,000 Tyrannosaurus at a time
On a given day, there were about 20,000 T-Rex individuals alive on earth → Read More
Pisa to Mars: Ingenuity all the way
A few years before you were born, Galileo Galilei conducted a famous experiment → Read More
Oh how the curve has steepened!
More than the numbers, the speed at which we are adding new infections is worrying → Read More
Collatz Conjecture on my mind, almost
Mathematicians have scoured the Collatz Conjecture canvas in search of a pattern → Read More
Slaves to the Machine? Or not? Or not yet?
The Ramanujan Machine has come up with many conjectures about continued fractions → Read More
Sizing up dinosaurs: the juveniles have it
Megatheropod juveniles constrained the flowering of the dinosaur species → Read More
Opinion: Sexual assault is sexual assault, skin or no skin
A misogynistic, sexist judgement of the Bombay High Court has just made my daughter’s world that much more terrifying. → Read More
Quarantine in a time of Covid-19: Sweet voices on the phone and a very special gargle
A diary of two weeks in isolation. → Read More
At the centre of it all, a black hole
A black hole causes some distortion in the character or behaviour of nearby stars → Read More