Independent journalist and contributor, Down To Earth. Her concerns relate to the way power structures in society - business corporations, governments and lobbies - impact the lives of the powerless.
Annihilation of caste and copyright claims
Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum
Spy versus spy and high tech gizmos
From secure manhole covers to Internet tracking systems, NSA has an arsenal of patents
Who foots the huge dole for business?
Bad loans of public sector banks to business are more than double the food subsidy
Public domain is not elementary, Sherlock
The Sherlock Holmes case highlights the stranglehold of copyright laws in the US
Yale guide to fighting drug patent barriers
How human rights can be used to challenge oppressive intellectual property laws
How to save $25 billion and more on drug costs
Patent settlements bring cheaper generics to market early and cut healthcare spending
A plate half full
The National Food Security Bill may not do much but what it does is essential
Gene patent verdict is as good as it gets
The US Supreme Court’s verdict in the Myriad case keeps everyone happy
Mark Lynas and the demeaning of science
He’s fuzzy on facts and low on science, but the campaigner gets big media support
Indications of a geographic muddle
Are Geographical Indications safeguarding the interests of growers and artisans?
A patent triumph of public interest
New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights
Strong medicine for weak drug patents
Revocation of Pfizer, Roche patents for lacking inventive step signals healthy trend
Big tobacco blows new smoke rings
A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules
A nobel indictment of gene patenting
Legendary scientist James Watson files court brief against lunacy of gene patents
Seeking Food Sovereignty
The great biodiversity vanishing trick
Hunger games – it’s the real India show
In the name of the farmer
Where is the sceptical indian scientist?
Tiger takes the biscuit
Importing Disaster
Kingfisher and Cronies
Outrage of the 99%
The desperation of farmers
The idea of corruption