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Intellectual

News Reports

China’s Agri-Warfare: USA caught napping while China steps up efforts to steal intellectual property in agriculture

Anurag - 9 June, 2021

China follows a simple rule, if technology cannot be bought or developed, it can be stolen, and they are following that in agriculture

Opinions

Who is an ‘intellectual’ and why is he so frustrated

Guest Author - 25 March, 2020

The desire for asymmetrical treatment though sits uneasily with their desire to speak for the subaltern, is not external to intellectual labour but is deeply embedded in it.

Social Media

Shekhar Kapur says ‘intellectuals’ still make him feel like a refugee, Javed Akhtar takes it as a personal offence

Shashank Bharadwaj - 28 July, 2019

Javed Akhtar, one of the active members of the "liberal-secular" intellectual industry, often feels a sense of entitlement and control over the intellectual thought of this country.

Politics

Under-achiever Bhayanak Sen writes to PM Modi, talks about rising ‘achiever-thought-terrorism’

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2019

Referring to oneself as 'intellectual' does not make one 'intelligent' and above criticism.

Law

PepsiCo sues potato farmers for growing the variety used for Lays Chips

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2019

In a letter sent to Ministry, the activists have said that the farmers have every right to produce and sell a protected variety of seeds and that Pepsico can't claim intellectual property right on it.

After Twitter’s ‘caste’ row, Manish Tewari says Brahmins should accept their fate as Jews did

Nirwa Mehta - 21 November, 2018

Manish Tewari tweeted that 'Anti-Brahminism' is the reality of Indian politics.

Opinions

Journalists and pseudo-scholars must try harder if they wish to tarnish the image of Rajiv Malhotra

Rohan - 7 November, 2018

The concept of 'emic and etic', as he says, groups people as insiders and outsiders, to explain social realities observed in religious studies, anthropology, psychology and a number of other social sciences.

Opinions