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Feb 1, 2021, 4:01 PM

Green menstruation: Towards making sustainable choices

When we talk about periods, accessibility has always been prioritized over sustainability. However, one does not have to undermine another. Disposable pads pose a grave environmental crisis An average woman is likely to menstruate about 450 times throughout her lifetime. This...

Aug 17, 2020, 9:16 PM

Chapter two of India – Israel Relations: Beyond defense and diamonds

The Indo-Israeli bilateral partnership is a unique case study for students of international relations. Bilateral trade between India and Israel had grown from a meager $200 million in 1992-93 to $6 billion in 2012-13. However, since then it dipped to...

Apr 14, 2020, 11:51 PM

How does a COVID-19 testing center look like?

The current time is unprecedented. We haven’t seen anything like this in the last ~100 years and (hopefully) won’t see in the next 100 years. But, as a Ph.D. student in Molecular Genetics, it is moving to answer curious...

Dec 28, 2019, 3:35 PM

Indian students in Israel stage a silent protest against new citizenship law

“Students at work, country under construction” read one of the banners held by a group of protesting students in front of the Indian Embassy in Tel Aviv earlier on Friday. More than 30 students had gathered amidst strong winds,...

Dec 25, 2019, 12:02 AM

Reflections on Israel’s thriving biotech industry

The Israeli life science industry is uniquely poised in the global ecosystem and the trajectory is likely to go north. According to a recent report by Israeli Advanced Technology Industries (IATI), the robust Israeli life ecosystem has produced close...

Sep 3, 2019, 11:06 PM

Israeli deep-tech startups find themselves ‘hot’ in India

In 2018, when Flipkart, the leader of $32 billion Indian e-commerce market, wanted to deliver critical insights about the product inventory to its sellers, it looked towards Israel for solutions. In a major buyout, Flipkart, which is now a...

Dec 23, 2018, 12:24 PM

Israel’s bid to solve India’s “billion-dollar” healthcare problem

Credit: Karuna Shenchen

Israel’s healthcare industry has been one of the top contributors to its export-driven economy. According to the annual industry report published by Israeli Advanced Technological Industries at the MIXiii-BIOMED-2018 conference in Tel Aviv, pharmaceutical and medical technology exports accounted...

Nov 18, 2018, 5:56 AM

Israeli tech can assuage India’s worst water crisis

In June 2018, NITI Aayog, the policy think-tank arm of Government of India, published a report titled, “Composite Water Management Index” on the current state of water usage patterns and availability in India. The executive summary of the report...

Aug 25, 2018, 12:53 AM

Making academic research profitable: Take lessons from Israel

At 4.25%, Israel spends the most share of its GDP on R&D than anyone else. Not surprisingly, the investment has helped Israel to earn the title of “Startup Nation”, much of which is attributed to its thriving entrepreneurship culture. For a nation...

Jun 11, 2018, 6:23 AM

Burgeoning footprint of Israeli agricultural technologies in India

Illustrative: An undated image of a farmer in the western Negev town of Kadesh Barnea inspecting a crop of cherry tomatoes. (Gili Yaari / Flash 90)

Close to fifty-eight percent of India's population is directly engaged in agriculture as its primary source of employment

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Sandipan Dasgupta is a Ph.D. candidate at Weizmann Institute of Science, a co-founder of Weizmann Biotech Club, and a shaper at the Tel Aviv Hub of Global Shaper Community of the World Economic Forum. Previously, he was an Israel-Asia Leaders fellow at Israel-Asia Center, Jerusalem. Please visit: www.sandipandasgupta.com Note: All opinions expressed are personal and are not endorsed by any affiliated institution or organization.

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