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Author: Ashish Singh Panchal

Same Village, Different Truths: A Case Study in the Scientific Method from the High Himalayas

Same Village, Different Truths: A Case Study in the Scientific Method from the High Himalayas

Science is supposed to provide objective facts. A team of researchers goes to a...

A Chamber of Secrets: How a New Iron Age Site is Rewriting Tamil Nadu’s Deep Past

A Chamber of Secrets: How a New Iron Age Site is Rewriting Tamil Nadu’s Deep Past

The Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu have long been known for their breathtaking natural...

A Shield, Not a Prize: Why Jharkhand’s Tribes Are Protesting the Kurmi Demand for ST Status

A Shield, Not a Prize: Why Jharkhand’s Tribes Are Protesting the Kurmi Demand for ST Status

The designation of “Scheduled Tribe” in India is not merely an identity marker; it...

Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Superarchaics: Why Science Needs ‘Informal’ Names for Our Ancestors

Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Superarchaics: Why Science Needs ‘Informal’ Names for Our Ancestors

In the world of science, precise naming is everything. We have Homo sapiens, Homo...

A Statistical X-Ray of a Nation in Flux: Deconstructing the 2023 NCRB Report

A Statistical X-Ray of a Nation in Flux: Deconstructing the 2023 NCRB Report

Every year, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) releases its “Crime in India” report,...

Living in the Last 11 Seconds: Why Our Reality is Alien to 99% of Human History

Living in the Last 11 Seconds: Why Our Reality is Alien to 99% of Human History

You wake up in a safe bed, take a hot shower, make an instant...

You Don’t See With Your Eyes: Dale Purves and the Empirical Theory of Perception

You Don’t See With Your Eyes: Dale Purves and the Empirical Theory of Perception

We live with an intuitive and powerful conviction: that our eyes act like cameras,...

The Lion Fat and the Satellite Image: An Anthropologist’s Journey into Magical Thinking

The Lion Fat and the Satellite Image: An Anthropologist’s Journey into Magical Thinking

In the bustling central market of Bamako, Mali, a man searches for a piece...

How to Argue Like a Hunter-Gatherer: The Ju/’hoansi Art of Consensus

How to Argue Like a Hunter-Gatherer: The Ju/’hoansi Art of Consensus

Our modern world is saturated with debate. From parliamentary shouting matches to social media...

Societies of Perpetual Movement: Rewriting the Story of the Hunter-Gatherer

Societies of Perpetual Movement: Rewriting the Story of the Hunter-Gatherer

For over a century, the textbook image of a hunter-gatherer society has been a...

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