Adithya Anil Variath

Adithya Variath is a Research Assistant to the Department for Promotion of Industries and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India – IPR Chair, MNLU Mumbai.

Decolonising Intellectual Property in the Post-Colonial World: COVID and the Geopolitics of IP

The outbreak of COVID-19 not only exposed the deep-rooted structural problems of healthcare systems across the world but also exposed the imperial structure of...

A Case for ‘Digital Refugees’ in the Age of Internet Shutdowns

Digital technology is briskly diversifying and metamorphizing the socio-economic structure in both developed and developing countries. We live in the new digital age, where...

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