Tag Archives: IIT Madras
Discovering Vikram Sarabhai
I just read through a collection of Vikram Sarabhai’s important speeches and papers compiled by members of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, to pick a suitable portion to excerpt on the occasion of Sarabhai’s birth centenary tomorrow. There was … Continue reading
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Tagged birth centenary, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, IIT Madras, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, Jawaharlal Nehru, Physical Research Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai
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Solutions looking for problems
There’s been a glut of ‘science projects’ that seem to be divorced from their non-technical aspects even when the latter are equally, if not more, important – or maybe it is just a case of these problems always having been … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds
Tagged Bharati script, Chandrayaan 2, Chinese Space Station, Elon Musk, Gaganyaan, Hyperloop, IIT Madras, Indian Space Research Organisation, Indian Space Station, International Space Station, space science
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