There was a conference in Penang on “Decolonising our universities” 27-29 June. A very interesting part of the conference was to share similar experiences of colonial and racist deceit with people from different parts of the world. Another very interesting aspect was the involvement of a number of young student…
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The debate seems to have generated wide interest, so I thought I would record it here. Here is my original post on H-Asia. The comment from Michael Witzel, of Harvard University, is given in the comments section under that. Probability in Ancient India ************************************ The history of Asia is somehow understood in…
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Like calculus, probability too started off in India. People have long been asking me to write about it, and I finally did so. My article on “Probability in Ancient India” is finally out in the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, vol. 7. Philosophy of Statistics by Elsevier. The first…
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This question is often asked. Here is the short answer (in the terse Indian sutra style) It makes math easy, by eliminating the religious bias in it, and gives a better math, physics and history.
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On the occasion of Gagarin’s 50th anniversary and Ambedkar Jayanti take a look at my article http://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.2945v2. This corrects (the conceptual defect in) Newton’s “law” of gravitation, and explains the anomalous orbits of NASA spacecraft, and also stars in the galaxy, which that “law” cannot explain (and which have not…
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Though Stephen Hawking seems to have moved on from singularity theory in his latest book (http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review_the-christian-propaganda-in-stephen-hawkings-work_1495047), there is one point about singularities which still needs to be clarified, since even the Large Hadronic Collider website confounds a singularity with a moment of creation. The question is what sort of singularity?…
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Press reports http://ckraju.net/press/press.html (inaccurate, but some journalists made a good effort, and it is the feeling that counts). Videos of the TGA award ceremony at the University of Pécs, Hungary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-AuJy5tF8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93PVVX_TigU Acceptance speech for the TGA Gold Medal Award, 2010 Dignitaries on the dais, fellow Laureates, friends, I am indeed…
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Recently, someone who had invited me for a talk, wanted a bio, and sent in a short bio, evidently taken from the Wikipedia, which says “Much of Raju’s beliefs have been highly controversial, especially his claims that the philosophies that underlie subjects like time and mathematics are rooted in the…
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Dear Professor Hoodbhoy, This refers to your article on “Islam’s arrested development” (Guardian, UK, 25 Nov 2009: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/25/islam-science-muslims-religion). I reproduce below my response posted at http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:the_guardian665:47e5bc0f59fdfabb8fd85093cdd0f553/Islams-arrested-development–Pervez-Hoodbhoy — I agree that “Science demands a mindset that incessantly questions and challenges assumptions”. However, I would like to question and challenge the assumption…
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That was the remark that Come Carpentier made from the chair, during the debate at India International Centre, when he asked for questions and people remained silent for what seemed like a couple of minutes before breaking into a rush of questions. The debate was on the “Concepts of science…