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"""Prabir Purkayastha's writing bridges science, technology and societal issues by underlining concerns regarding sharing knowledge, not patenting it, and drawing people to own this knowledge.""--Vineeta Bal, National Institute of Immunology, Bombay; formerly, task force for Women in Science, Ministry of Science and Technology ""Uncommonly well written, this important book by Prabir Purkayastha covers much ground--a lot of it new--on the social role of science and technology in India.""--Ram Ramaswamy, Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry, IIT-Delhi; formerly, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University"

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Prabir Purkayastha is an engineer in the power, telecom, and software sectors, a founding member of the Delhi Science Forum and editor of Newsclick.in. A scientist-activist, he is co-author, with Vijay Prashad, of Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism and Theft of the Global Commons (LeftWord 2002). As of late 2023, the 74-year-old was being held in New Delhi's Tihar Prison Complex under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

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