The Black House Kollective initiated a welcome conversation in Soweto on decolonisation in relation to Western superstitions in science. For example, the first lesson in science is typically about Newton’s “laws”. But how do we know there are any eternal laws of nature? That was just a church dogma enunciated…
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4 Nov 2016 Dear Dr Rammanohar Reddy, Thank you for your response. I was under the impression that the Reader’s Editor is not a mere glorified post box, to forward mail to the editor, as you say you have done. In the event of a disagreement with the editor, I…
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False history of the kind that “Much, though certainly not all, mathematics was the creation of dead white men” has been traditionally used to defend racism. My Euclid challenge prize for Rs 2 lakhs is offered to demonstrate that this racist history is based on faith not any facts. Therefore,…
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Synopsis: My article “To decolonise math stand up to its false history and bad philosophy” published in Conversation (Global edition) became very popular, but was then taken down on “editorial grounds”. These “editorial grounds” did NOT relate to a single factual flaw or defect in my argument. The “editorial” ground…
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[This article was first published in the Conversation (Global edition) on 24 October 2016. It quickly reached a readership of 16737, before being taken down, obviously because it represents a dangerous piece of dissent against racism and colonialism. For more details see the next blog post. ] A false history…
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The video of my conversation with the Dalai Lama is now on You Tube. It is also still available on the official site . Reports of this appeared in Tibet Post, and in the Sunday Guardian and sundry news agency reports.
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The video of my MIT talk is now online at Calculus: the real story The abstract and presentation were put up on an earlier blog http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=106 The video of my talk at Indian Institute of Science is also online Calculus: ganita or math?
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Note: Am locked out of my website. The following “abstract” is for the forthcoming 39th Indian Social Science Congress, Mangalore, a talk at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and an international meeting on plurality in math in Kolkata. The idea is to talk and discuss publicly, not publish in secretively…
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Many traditionalists whether in India or in Iran regard secularism in education as the biggest enemy of traditional values. (A recent example of this thinking is Bharat Gupt’s article posted at http://indiafacts.co.in/religious-pluralism-and-distorted-notions-of-secularism-in-education/ ) These traditionalists are dead wrong: the church has succeeded so well because those it considers its biggest…
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As part of a series of workshops on science and various religions, there was a day-long workshop on science and Islam at the Universiti Sains Islamic Malaysia. My presentations are posted online: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. This developed the paper on Islam and science presented as a keynote…