Scientist in exile [ Subramanya Chandrasekhar]

Sunday Times of India, 14 July 1991 Rajesh Kochhar [This essay reviews Kameshwar C. Wali’s authorized biography of Subramanya Chandrasekhar, titled Chandra. The review was written when Chandrasekhar was still…

Was Raja Jai Singh a plagiarist ?

The Tribune , Chandigarh, 7 January 1999 Rajesh Kochhar The name Jantar Mantar, sounding like hocus-pocus, would have pained Raja Sawai Jai Singh. The quaintly shaped buildings at Delhi and…

The wrong Bose at Como

Economic Times 31May 1994 Rajesh Kochhar The 70th birthday celebration of the noted physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) in Calcutta was witness to an unusual event. One of the invited…