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Modulation of Hydroxy Functionalities in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Conflicts of Interest There are no conflicts to declare. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available in the supplementary material of this article. Supporting Information Filename Description adfm79121-sup-0001-SuppMat.docx31.3 MB Supporting File: adfm79121-sup-0001-SuppMat.docx. References 1 and , “Metal–Air Batteries: From Oxygen Reduction Electrochemistry to Cathode Catalysts,” Chemical Society Reviews 41, no.
A Treatise on and Challenge to the Epistemological Conquest of India
The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge: The British in India edited by Vinay Lal, Delhi: Primus Books, 2022; pp 293, `1,450. Allegorically, Plato’s cavemen characterised the modern sciences. Both seemed to have operated with a world view, limited to a particular way of seeing. The cavemen worked upon reasoning and methodology involved in perceiving the cave, amounting to a delimited epistemology.
Walking in Indian cities
What makes the pursuit of walking a challenge is the fact that pedestrians have to navigate disabling infrastructure as well as unregulated expansion of concrete urbanity while doing so Dev Nath Pathak Published 31.03.26, 07:09 AM Representational image. Sourced by the Telegraph What is the status of pedestrians in India?
When we give up hope for our children
On World Children’s Day, celebrated annually on November 20, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi-NCR showed shocking levels of particulate matter. On this occasion, a question should have haunted us all: How can we violate our children’s right to health and well-being? Unfortunately, there is a fatalistic and grudging acceptance of air pollution as part of everyday living. The logic that the show must go on and business must remain uninterrupted is revealing.
How India’s Air Pollution Crisis Is Damaging Childhoods
On World Children’s Day, celebrated annually on November 20, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi-NCR showed shocking levels of particulate matter. On this occasion, a question should have haunted us all: How can we so blatantly violate our children’s right to health and well being? Unfortunately, there is a fatalistic and grudging acceptance of air pollution as part of everyday living, as an inevitable annual experience.
On Teachers’ Day, a question: Can AI be adopted into the classroom without losing the core ideals of teaching?
It’s not easy being a teacher in contemporary India. Besides attending to the needs of the students in classrooms, they navigate various institutional demands and responsibilities. Teachers today face a complex landscape of technology that is both alluring and fraught with ethical complexities. The old image of a teacher in repose, ever ready to ponder the complexity of contemporary life, seems to have undergone a change.
This is no laughing matter
India, like the rest of the world, needs an elaborate education to safeguard humour as a basic human right. This will enable citizens to understand the role of humour in a functional society Dev Nath Pathak Published 25.06.25, 06:51 AM Representational image Sourced by the Telegraph I teach a course on humour to the students of Bachelors of Technology at South Asian University.
Why India needs stable urban forests | Explained
The story so far: One of Hyderabad’s last remaining urban forests, Kancha Gachibowli, faced the threat of extinction when the Telangana government decided to give away 400 acres of its land for industrial development. Justifying its move by claiming ownership over the forest, the government alleged that protesting students were misled by real estate interests. However, the Supreme Court took cognisance of the felling of 100 acres of trees and reprimanded the State government.
Why is active mobility necessary in India? | Explained Original
The story so far: Sporadic reports of accidental deaths and injuries of pedestrians, cyclists, street-hawkers, and others in the metro cities of India are on the rise. While urban development in various metro cities include patches of dedicated service lanes for pedestrians and cyclists, motor vehicles tend to ply on them as well. As a result, the risk of accidents are as high on these pathways as on the main roads with vehicular traffic.
Kunal Kamra row: Why we need politically incorrect humour
The recent vandalising of Habitat studio in Mumbai by Shiv Sena workers where artist and activist Kunal Kamra performed his stand-up special, Naya Bharat, needs attention in a wider context: The cultural politics of humour. Against the Zero FIR filed in Mumbai, the Madras High Court rightly granted inter-state anticipatory bail to Kamra. Humour and critical creative expressions are integral to a functional society. Humour amounts to a cultural politics that rejuvenates social relationships.
An oriental mela
The orientalism of the Kumbh puts a gloss over the caste configurations that are most vivid in the structure of the Kumbh congregation Dev Nath Pathak Published 19.02.25, 06:35 AM Amidst the euphoria about the Mahakumbh, which commenced mid-January, an insight compels us to reason with a historical question. How much does the Kumbh conceal in the revelations that hog the electronic, print and social media?
HT Syndication: Maha Kumbh 2025: A timeless 'sangam' of faith, mythology and modernity
India, Jan. 22 -- Mark Tully, the well-known former BBC correspondent depicted the 1989 Maha Kumbh at Parayag as an enigmatic and enchanting interplay of time and timelessness.
Maha Kumbh 2025: A timeless ‘sangam’ of faith, mythology and modernity
the event reaffirms its status as an intangible cultural heritage, blending ancient mythology and lived religious practices to embody the unity in diversity of Indian spirituality Mark Tully, the well-known former BBC correspondent depicted the 1989 Maha Kumbh at Parayag as an enigmatic and enchanting interplay of time and timelessness.
Childhood seen anew
Cultural scene in India engaged with the modernity of childhood without losing sight of tradition. A romantic perception of divine childhood had attracted poets & philosopher storytellers Dev Nath Pathak Published 18.09.24, 07:12 AM Our time puts adult perspective on a higher pedestal in the hierarchy of age. This is revealed in the way we approach childhood. Of late, baal-buddhi became an element of discord in a Lok Sabha debate.
On Gods and godmen in popular Hindi cinema
The month of June 2024 was rife with news about the recently released Yash Raj film production, Maharaj, directed by Siddharth Malhotra. According to many critics it was another badly made film in spite of a power-packed performance by actor Jaideep Ahlawat. The film, however, grabbed our eyeballs for two reasons. One is that the film, based on a historical 1862 Maharaj libel case, was a criticism of blind faith.
Why Char Dham Circuit model of development is dangerous for Uttarakhand, Himalayas
The Char Dham Yatra route is spread over 1,600 km. Along it, there are several places that have inspired poetry, including by Rabindranath Tagore, and religious and spiritual harmony. However, the spiritual and social liberation that was the core of the Char Dham Yatra is in danger. A particular idea of development, with strong political backing, is threatening the essence of the Yatra. Hence, we must ask: Do the regular road accidents, in part, stem from an inappropriate model of development?
The university reinvented
Project of reinventing is yet to go full swing. But every stakeholder of the university system should remain committed to Tagore’s hope expressed in the first quarter of the 20th century Dev Nath Pathak Published 06.06.24, 07:34 AM Representational image. File Photo The announcement by a Swiss university to stay out of a globally-coveted ranking system provides an opportunity to return to some of the fundamental imperatives.
COVID-19 Cuts in Sociology of South Asia
Beyond the standard format of a discipline confined to the national framework, there is a dire need for a disciplinary practice that entails connections within the region. Such connections were visible during the COVID-19 pandemic in the varied and common experiences of issues across the region. Reasoning with thematic and experiential connections, there is space for building a sociology of South Asia.
Serbet-Sensorium : A Sociological Methodology in Phanishwar Nath Renu’s Parti Parikatha
A Sociological Methodology in Phanishwar Nath Renu’s Parti Parikatha Tags: Known to be a modern litterateur, nonetheless, Phanishwar Nath Renu’s (1921–77) oeuvre presents a curious case due to its continuity with regional folklore. A sense of creative ambivalence about the binaries of modernity and tradition, objectivity and subjectivity gets reflected in the literary style and methodological reflexivity of Renu.
Ontology of Being and Becoming : Subjectivities of Migrants in India
Subjectivities of Migrants in India Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living edited by Sadan Jha and Pushpendra Kumar Singh, London and New York: Routledge, 2022; pp 312, `1,595. Since the subject is subjectivity, it is tempting to turn a few leaves of a seemingly unrelated discourse, as a point of departure.
A Defence of the Extraordinary?
The ordinary, along with its cognate terms, including the mundane, banal, usual, commonplace, normal and so on, connotes both a value attribution or judgment and perhaps also a statistical significance. That which is supposedly ordinary is also often the most frequent, statistically speaking.
Taliban Takes Over Afghanistan: Stuck Between Hope & Despair, Afghan Youth in India Want Peace at Home
Students from Afghanistan, presently living in India, talk about the past and the future with deep trepidation. With the Taliban gaining strength in Afghanistan, again, their battle scars ache in apprehension of what is to come. Speaking to some students, it is possible to get a sneak peak of the dreams behind the despair. Sigmund Freud called dreams the guardians of sleep. Before Afghanistan slips into slumber, we must recount and recognise the guardian dreams of the Afghani youth.
COVID-19 is a Golden Opportunity to Switch to a Compassionate Pedagogy in Education
An anxiety-prone society deserves more compassionate pedagogy where quality and experience shall matter. A turn to e-education or online academic activities is a foregone conclusion in the time of social distancing. There is no other choice available. In this situation of compulsion, however, is a chance to ask whether we can try to optimally humanize online academics. Could this choice in compulsion not be transformed into a golden opportunity to create an innovative alternative?
As social cohesion frays with Covid-19 social distancing, revisiting Durkheim’s theory of suicide
In general, death is a social taboo in post-industrial, consumerist society. Nobody is supposed to talk about it in public. It is anathema – though, in comparison, pornography is not. This evasion is a typical characteristic of a society that seeks to conceal reality with spectacle. It is as if the quality of death is nothing more than a consumer choice. Sociologist Norbert Ilias wrote insightfully about the “loneliness of dying”, facilitated by an industry of service providers.
Plight of migrants in dehumanised South Asia
The idea of South Asia was never too clear, except what the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) stood for. It was hardly anything more than a few nation-states randomly put together, for strategic and trade interests. A perpetual bone of contention was Pakistan in this comity of nations. Dramatically, COVID-19 cuts in to reveal the erroneous formulation of South Asia.
‘JNU was built on the base of nationalism and internationalism’: A conversation with Yogendra Singh
21 minutes ago Biswajit Das & Dev Nath Pathak Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Comments Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Comments On January 15, four months before sociologist Yogedra Singh died, he was interviewed by two scholars from another generation. In his conversation with Biswajit Das and Dev Nath Pathak, the founder professor of Centre for the Study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi recounted his of intellectual journey.
The story of a Sri Lankan woodcarver who became a prisoner and a political artist
Nov 03, 2016 · 06:30 am Dev Pathak Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Share Tweet Email Reddit Print The Sri Lanka that Koralegadara Pushpakumara conjures in his art, is not seen in idyllic tourist guides, and it is far removed from the sanitised discussions of state officials. This is an aesthetic imagination of Lanka at the cusp of romance and reality, neatly blending his personal experiences with public history.
Why a Sri Lankan artist’s redrawn maps are gaining ardent admirers in India
Pala Pothupitiye, a defiant artist from Sri Lanka, has earned many admirers in India over the past six years with his critically acclaimed artworks that reimagine maps. His popularity was evident last week at a preview of his solo show in Delhi: a number of art lovers and collectors stood frozen before the vociferous frames narrating the artist’s history, enmeshed in biography.
The unbecoming of Bollywood
While the commerce pundits are assessing an apparently bad business for Bollywood, it is imperative that one key issue should not be swept under the carpet: Bollywood this year shrugged off the pretence of transnationalism vis-à-vis the regionalism it embodied. That Bollywood in particular and Indian cinema in general have been subcontinental, regional, and constitutionally South Asian in character since their inception gave South Asia a sense of pride and promise.
The story of a Sri Lankan woodcarver who became a prisoner and a political artist
The Sri Lanka that Koralegadara Pushpakumara conjures in his art, is not seen in idyllic tourist guides, and it is far removed from the sanitised discussions of state officials. This is an aesthetic imagination of Lanka at the cusp of romance and reality, neatly blending his personal experiences with public history. Pushpakumara, who is also known as Pushpe, was an eyewitness to the insurgency, violence, genocide, and civil war that wrecked Sri Lanka.
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