Yesterday (26 November, Constitution Day) at Constitution club, I received the Nilakantha honor from the Dalit organization “Kabir ke log” from a former Union deputy education minister (and scholar) Dr Sanjay Paswan). Click for a related article on dalit scientific achievements, in Jansatta. Earlier I had received the Bharatiya Dharohar…
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The long-awaited book Rhodes must Fall, by the Rhodes Must Fall Group at Oxford has been published by Zed books, and is distributed by the University of Chicago press. It carries my censored article “To decolonise math stand up to its false history and bad philosophy” together with a supportive…
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The Palestine Technical University, Kadourie, Palestine, is organizing the Sixth Palestinian Conference on Modern Trends in Mathematics and Physics PCMTMP-VI, 5th-8th August 2018. I was invited to give two plenary talks (scheduled on 7th and 8th Aug) on Decolonising mathematics: how and why it makes science better (and enables students…
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Here are the media reports for the Rajju Ganit workshop from Dainik Bhaskar, Nai Duniya, Talk show by Global Herald, and Free Press Journal Global Herald talk show प्रसिद्ध गणितज्ञ सीके राजू से खास चर्चा Dainik Bhaskar Nai Duniya26 June 2018 Global Herald e-paper 30 June 2018 Free Press journal
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We have never re-examined our math education since independence to eliminate the trash myths and bad philosophy brought in by colonial education. Since people don’t understand the problems at the level of the calculus, this workshop takes up issues at the school level. For links, download the pdf of the…
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Racists are stupid nitwits. The whole business of racism is based on a stupid lie that people with a certain colour of the skin are superior. I thought everyone understood the stupidity of racists. Therefore, at a recent meeting in India, I was surprised when a couple of young people…
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(Note: This post first published in Decoloniality international newsletter, on Wednesday April 4th, 2018. Typos corrected. There is also a related blog post “Hawking singularities”, and a full-page review of Hawking’s book in “The Christian propaganda in Hawking’s work”, published in Daily News and Analysis, 16 Jan 2011. Another recent…
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Q. 1. I would like to know how I can decolonise myself mathematically. (I am an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer with engineering back ground.) Q. 2. Do u suggest any videos of yours or any books? subsequently how I could prevent my kids from mental colonization. A. Step 0. Proposed videos.…
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The panel discussion at the University of Cape Town (UCT) achieved something important: it exposed Stephen Hawking’s co-author G. F. R. Ellis, a star of the racist apartheid regime. He ran away from UCT debate, because he could not defend through open debate the awful church propaganda he along with…
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The panel discussion on decolonising science at the University of Cape Town (UCT) was a great victory. It publicly exposed that no one in the UCT had a single serious argument against me. Indeed, in the last two decades not a single person in the West has put forward a…