On July 17, 2020, Nandita Haksar, a prominent advocate for civil rights and a lawyer in the Supreme Court, raised an intriguing question in her article titled "Stranger than fiction: Did the CIA carry out clandestine mosquito experiments in 1970s India?" She pondered whether scientific collaboration becomes a battleground where profit-driven politics clash with politics serving the people's interests. Being the daughter of the late P.N. Haksar, a respected bureaucrat, member of the Planning Com...
