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…
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There have been many examples of censorship in South Africa. The censorship of my article in Conversation is well known. Most of the math and science faculty at UCT struthiously believe that their point is proved (and their jobs saved) if they refuse to engage with me publicly. The formal…
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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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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,…