Dear Express Explained reader, Through this week, The Indian Express has published a series of reports on The Pandora Papers, a global collaborative investigation into a trove of 11.9 million leaked files from global corporate services firms that set up some 29,000 off-the-shelf companies and private trusts for estate planning in jurisdictions around the world that are loosely regulated for tax purposes but are invariably characterised by iron-clad privacy laws. There are at least 380 persons of Indian nationality in The Pandora Papers, and The Indian Express has so far verified documents related to about 60 of them. P Vaidyanathan Iyer, one of my colleagues who spent the better part of six months poring over thousands of these documents, wrote a wonderful explainer on what this investigation is about. There is also this video that I recommend you check out, narrated by Ritu Sarin, head of investigations at The Indian Express. This was Nobel Prize week, and like every year, we published short summaries of the work done by all the laureates that this high honour celebrates. Science editor Amitabh Sinha wrote about the 2021 prize for physiology or medicine, given to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for deciphering the science of touch; the physics Nobel, given to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Georgio Parisi, the first for climate science; and the chemistry Nobel, to Benjamin List and David Macmillan, for the “simple idea” that catalysed game-changing chemical reactions. Paromita Chakrabarti wrote about the work of literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Krishn Kaushik summarised the work of the peace laureates, journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia. This week, the WHO allowed “widespread use” of the world’s first malaria vaccine that has so far been administered to 8 lakh children in three African countries, paving the way to take the shot outside the pilot programme — and possibly bringing it to India as well. Anuradha Mascarenhas and Amitabh wrote about GSK’s mosquirix, technically known as RTS,S/AS01, and what the WHO’s certification changes (or does not) for India’s war against malaria. Stay safe and stay aware. Keep reading The Indian Express Explained. Sincerely, Monojit (monojit.majumdar@expressindia.com) If you received this newsletter as a forward, you can subscribe to it here | Do read our Explained articles here | .png)
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