(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…
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Here is a video of the 11th Higher Education Conference at the University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban. https://youtu.be/seEc6V_rJ5I My keynote address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpS6MfzJr2E HEC11 – Keynote by Professor K. Raju, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata www.youtube.com Chair – Professor Kesh Govinder, University of KwaZulu-Natal Title – Decolonising Maths and Science Education The…
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For those colonised minds who superstitiously believe formal math and Western science are universal, there was a panel discussion at the University of Cape Town. Decolonising science panel discussion The key point: anti-empirical formal math is used to slip in church dogmas into science. Of course normal math (imported by…
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As pointed out in the previous post, calculus started not with the Kerala school but with the dalit Aryabhata, of Patna, in the 5th c. The Aryabhata school in Kerala acknowledged him as their master, and Nilakantha somasutvan wrote a commentary (bhashya) on the Aryabhatiya. To repeat, the Indian calculus…
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The previous blog post contains two important points which need some elaboration. The first is elaborated in this post the second in the next. To quote: “They made out the Indian calculus to be solely a product of Kerala, when in fact, as explained in my book, it originated in…
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1-The fraud-news blitz Ten years ago, on 14/15 Aug 2007, on the 60th anniversary of India’s independence, PTI London released a piece of fraud news. All major newspapers in India prominently carried it, Hindustan Times on the front page, The Hindu on the back page etc. According to the news,…
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My article on “Mathematics and censorship” appeared in Kafila on 25 June 2017. The original censored article “To decolonise math stand up to its false history and bad philosophy” was first published in the Conversation (global edition), in October 2016. It went viral and was removed by the South Africa…