by Raywat Deonandan | Feb 3, 2012 | Cover Story, Features
There’s a photo I often show my audience before starting my lectures on “reproductive tourism.” It’s from a marketing brochure of the Akanksha infertility clinic in Anand, India, and features its medical director, Nayna Patel, standing regally amongst a group of...
by Raywat Deonandan | Jul 9, 2010 | Cover Story, Features
I am a scientist. I declare it so proudly. But I think many people have a distorted conception of what a scientist is, and, frankly, what science itself is. Science is not truth, not a body of knowledge, and not a set of technologies. Science is a philosophy and a...
by Raywat Deonandan | Feb 2, 2010 | Cover Story, Features
These are interesting times to be a university professor in North America, with both anecdotal and objective data suggesting a steady decline in student motivation and skills. During the first session of every class, I’ve taken to relating to my students some of my...
by Raywat Deonandan | Sep 6, 2009 | Perspectives
Forty years ago, my father took a walk to Central Park. He was a day away from his 37th birthday, and had just moved his young family from an impoverished rice-farming village in rural Guyana to the bitter proletariat soup of 1960s New York City, in search of...
by Raywat Deonandan | Oct 8, 2008 | Opinion, Perspectives
One of my favorite actors was the late Sir Peter Ustinov. Sir Peter was not just a thespian, but an outspoken intellectual, journalist, representative for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and past President of the World Federalist Movement, which was an...
