Dear Mr Pitroda, It was nice to meet and interact with you again during the AIMA meet. I’m glad that you respect my fundamental disagreement regarding the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) and have agreed to place it on the NKC website. Let me summarise my disagreement. The key mistake made…
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Dear Mr Pitroda, It was nice to meet you again at the FICCI gathering a few days ago. There wasn’t enough time for me to clarify what I was saying, so let me do so here. 1. First, I agree with you that a major change is needed in the…
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31 July 2008 is D. D. Kosambi’s 101st birthday. This is surely an occasion for historians to remember, because of Kosambi’s stature as a historian. His as-yet unmatched knowledge of languages and Indian culture (both “high” and “low”) gave tremendous depth to his pioneering account of Indian history from a…
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Here is an interesting conversation on this: http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=21821
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The late Daya Krishna, aptly described as a Socratic gadfly, was one of the pillars of philosophy in India, and a great believer in samvad or dialogue The late Ramu Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was perhaps best known for his lifelong explorations into the notion of self, for…
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Subject: SSV website on Atiyah-Raju case Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:39:14+0000 The Society for Scientific Values has now placed the following on its website. http://www.scientificvalues.org/cases.html ; 2007 case, number 2. "Atiyah-Raju Case: Prof C.K. Raju charged Prof Michel Atiyah, former President of the Royal Society, UK, of…
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Why is the ethics of science important? And why does talk of ethics so rarely translate into action?