Tag Archives: Jawaharlal Nehru
Looking (only) for Nehru
I have a habit of watching one old Tamil film a day. Yesterday evening, I was watching a film released in 1987, called Ivargal Indiyargal (‘They Are Indians’). In a scene in the film, an office manager distributes sweets to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandrayaan 3, Higgs boson, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ivargal Indiyargal, Jawaharlal Nehru, Satyendra Nath Bose, Vikram Sarabhai
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The importance of sensible politics to good science
Stuart Ritchie writes a newsletter-blog that I quite like, called Science Fictions. On May 30, he published a post on this blog entitled ‘Science is political – and that’s a bad thing’. I thought the post missed some important points, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Brahmins, casteism, gender-based discrimination, history of science, Jawaharlal Nehru, politicisation of science, reason of state
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A great discussion on the history of India’s tech.
On February 27, the Bangalore International Centre and Carnegie India hosted a panel discussion around Midnight Machines, the new book by Arun Mohan Sukumar that traces the interplay of technology and politics in independent India (read The Wire Science‘s review … Continue reading
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Tagged appropriate technology, Arun Mohan Sukumar, brain drain, CSIR, Emergency, Five Year Plan, history of science, history of technology, Human Genome Project, Indian Institutes of Technology, ISRO, Jahnavi Phalkey, Jawaharlal Nehru, Midnights Machines, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Morarji Desai, Nandan Nilekani, Planning Commission, solar cooker, UIDAI, Vikram Sarabhai
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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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