Two weeks ago, I gave a talk to over 1200 people, and I almost quit a minute before I was on. From the backstage area I could see the smoke twirling in blue and pink hues Read More
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After almost four years of struggling, today, I handed in my PhD thesis. In only a few months, I will be a Doctor in Linguistics. But I can’t help but wonder – what have I Read More
As a kid and the baby of the family, I quickly perfected the art of getting out of undesirable tasks (in the most endearing way possible). I had this sneaky trick of pretending to sleep Read More
A brief story of how I eventually learned I was dyslexic – and the power of songs to make sense of words. Struggling during the Early Years I always knew there was something different about me. Read More
Yesterday I received the confirmation that my manuscript for the Dutch journal Limosa will be sent to the editor for the final touches. Four years ago, I tried to publish a similar paper in the Read More
A month after obtaining my B.Sc, I went back to school to start working on my PhD. Before I went back, I had a list of things I wanted to do outside of my Read More
Case: An editorial board member spotted an overlap between one of his journal’s published articles and another article recently published in a different journal. He alerted the journal’s editor about this. To understand Read More
This story has been shared by popular Twitter persona, Lousy Librarian (@LousyLibrarian). Now that I’ve shared why I became “Lousy Librarian” in the Twitter-sphere, I’d like to talk about the real world too – Read More
Major funders and librarians in China have stated their intent to support and join Plan S, an initiative by a group of European funders to ensure that by 2020 all publicly funded research outcome is made Read More
The social sciences, or ‘Arts’ as it is popularly called, are often considered irrelevant as a field of study in India. More importantly, many people who I interact with on a daily basis are not Read More
