After seeing the Three Idiots, I felt I should blog about my experiences with IIT. I was always more interested in science than in engineering, and was put off further after seeing (and hearing) how my brother lived at IIT, Powai where he then was. I shuddered at the thought…
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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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Excerpts from an article by Dr Asghar Ali Engineer in Islam and Modern Age. (Dr Engineer won the Right Livelihood Award also called the alternative Nobel prize.) SCIENCE, WEST AND ISLAMIC ORIGIN OF SCIENCE Asghar Ali Engineer Recently I came across an excellent monograph in the form of a…
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Conversation with Shivanand Kanavi, Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services in Ghadar Jari Hai. Ghadar Jari Hai, Vol III, Issue 3 & 4, 2009 “Indian mathematics is practical whereas the European is metaphysical” C K Raju has been arguing passionately through several lectures and books about the uniqueness of…
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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…
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Newton did not quite understand the imported Indian calculus. To make it compatible with his religious beliefs about mathematics, he made time metaphysical. Newtonian physics failed exactly for this reason and had to be replaced by relativity. Read the abstract or watch the video of the presentation here.
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In a 1980 paper in the Journal of Physics, I predicted that advanced radiation actually exists in small amounts, so that some information travels from future to present and from present to past. How to test this experimentally? in my 1994 book Time: Towards a Consistent Theory, I argued that…
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Most people dread or dislike learning mathematics. What a pity for a subject which means by derivation the “science of learning”! On my theory, math became difficult, when it got entangled with the post-Crusade Christian theology of reason, used as a weapon against Islam. The way to make math easy, therefore, is to disentangle it…
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It seems only yesterday that Prabhash ji came to release my book, together with Ashis Nandy. He said he would write an article linking it to Hind Swaraj. Almost since then I was out of Delhi, and had just returned and wanted to discuss further with him when I heard the news.…
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My new books: Is Science Western in Origin? (Multiversity and Citizens International, Penang, Dissenting Knowledges Pamphlet Series No. 8, ed. Vinay Lal) and (Daanish Books, New Delhi) will be released by Dr Ashis Nandy and Shri Prabhash Joshi at Hindi Bhawan, New Delhi (Near Gandhi…