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…
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My talk to the Critical Collective co-organized by the New Urban Collective and the University of Color at the University of Amsterdam on Decolonising mathematics and science. This was followed by an interview with Grapevine TV.
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A video of a talk at Berlin. Berliner Festspiele, MaerzMusik festival, “Thinking together: Decolonising time”. Some people with attention-span restricted to the twitter limit thought this was only about the calendar. So, here is the abstract: Decolonising time: time at the interface of science and religion, and the full presentation.…
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My article first published and then censored by Conversation (but remained on the Wire), has now been published in full as part of another article “Black thoughts matter: decolonized math, academic censorship and the ‘Pythagorean’ proposition”, in the Journal of Black Studies. Click the link to download from the journal…
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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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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…
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Became an honorary member of the the Institute of Complex Thought at the University Ricardo Palma. Good to know that they want to try the 5-day course on calculus.