Is studying science history? ( 2008)

Hindustan Times New Delhi (Off track) 15 May 2008   Is studying science history?   Rajesh Kochhar At the Indian Science Congress in Visakhapatnam in January, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh…

Heavens within grasp ( LHC)

Power Politics, New Delhi, October 2008 Heavens within grasp: Recreating the moments after the Creation   “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for.”…

Rise and decline of modern science in India (2008)

National Academy Science Letters (Allahabad), 31 (5&6) , 171-174, 2008 Prof. R.C. Gupta Endowment Award Lecture of National Academy of Sciences India, Allahabad, delivered at Panjab University, Chandigarh, 18 Jan.2008 Friends, It is a matter…

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar: Life and times

R. Kochhar (2004) S.S. Bhatnagar: Life and Times. (Review essay) In New edition, Life & Work of Sir S.S. Bhatnagar (by Norah Richards). (Delhi: NISTADS) first published 1948 Shanti Swarup…

The Rgvedic Soma Plant

From the book ‘Medicine and Life Sciences in India’, published by Centre for Studies in Civilization, 2001, New Delhi   Soma is a celebrated plant in the Rgveda as well…