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	<title>Rajesh Kochhar</title>
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		<title>Advent and growth of cotton industry in England</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 05:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[calico printing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar  The induction of gorgeously printed cotton cloth from the East into the 17th century  Europe had very profound social and technological implications. There were two independent lines of action.  Chemicals were developed to replace natural colours, and machines to replace the Indian weaver. The dominant English economic activity in the 18th  century was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates, Traders, Rulers:  From Prince Henry the ‘Navigator’ to British Empire in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar “If it be the glory of England that, owing to her maritime exploration, the sun never sets on her dominions, it may be permitted to Englishmen to recall with satisfaction that who opened the way to that glory was the son of a Royal English lady.” This gushing tribute was paid to Prince [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribhuvandas Kalyandas Gajjar (1863–1920): the pioneering industrial chemist of Western India</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alembic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bengal Chemicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[P.C. Ray]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 104, NO. 8, 25 APRIL 2013, pp. 1093-1097 Tribhuvandas Kalyandas Gajjar (1863–1920) whose 150th birth anniversary falls this year was Western India’s first industrial chemist. To him goes the credit for introducing German synthetic dyes into Indian textile engineering, initiating alcohol production on modern lines and producing synthesis of formal education and industrial chemistry. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruchi Ram Sahni 150th Birth Anniversary Year Celebrations Inaugural Function, Panjab University Chandigarh 5 April 2013: Introductory Remarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar Co-Convener  Panjab University Ruchi Ram Sahni 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations  Committee Distinguished Guests, Friends! I would like to make a couple of quick points. First, why is Ruchi Ram Sahni not better known? One obvious reason is sharp discontinuity introduced by the Partition.  But I think the real reason is more fundamental. Ruchi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punjab’s pioneering scientist: Professor Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863-1948)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune Chandigarh  ( Science &#38; Technology) 5 April 2013 Punjab’s pioneering scientist Professor Ruchi Ram Sahni is an important figure in the scientific, educational, cultural and political history of colonial Punjab. His contribution to the development of scientific temper is path-breaking Rajesh Kochhar Co-convenor Panjab University Ruchi Ram Sahni 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations Committee. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims and English education in colonial Bengal:  Calcutta Madrasa and Hooghly Mohsin College in a historical perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[seductive orientalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  R. Kochhar (2011) Muslims and English education in colonial Bengal: Calcutta Madrasa and Hooghly Mohsin College in a historical perspective. In: Hooghly College  175,  pp. 17-39. (ed: S. K. Mukhopadhyay ( Hooghly: Hooghly Mohsin College)  Muslims and English education in colonial Bengal: Calcutta Madrasa and Hooghly Mohsin College in a historical perspective Rajesh Kochhar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural history in India during 18th and 19th centuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar Journal of Biosciences,  2013,  Vol.  38,  No. 2, pp. 201-224 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12038-013-9316-9 Introduction European access to India was a multi-dimensional phenomenon. The merchant-rulers were keen to identify commodities that could be profitably exported to Europe, cultivate commercial plants in India that grew outside their possessions, and find substitutes for drugs and simples that were obtained from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important developments in American and Indian natural history during 16-17th centuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christobal Acosta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar For details see the following reference. This Table however does not appear in the paper. http://www.ias.ac.in/jbiosci/dec2012/937.pdf Kochhar R 2012 Early natural history: contributions from the Americas and India.  J Biosciences 37 937-947. DOI 10.1007/s12038-012-9272-9 Period             Person(s) Work 1511-1530 Pedro Martir de Angleria (1457-1526) Publishes information on some New World drugs 1526, 1535 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rankling rankings: Govt shouldn’t abdicate its responsibility in education</title>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/rankling-rankings-govt-shouldnt-abdicate-its-responsibility-in-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune Chandigarh, Opinion page, 4 November 2012 Excerpts: THIS year’s rankings of world universities spring no surprises as far as India is concerned. India as before is placed very low. In a list prepared by a London-based educational advice company, Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd (QS), the highest ranking entry from India is the Indian Institute of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early modern natural history: Contributions from the Americas and India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar (2012) Journal of Biosciences, Vol. 37, No. 6 ( Dec.) pp. 937-947 DOI 10.1007/s12038-012-9272-9 The early success of its oceanic voyages brought contrary pulls to bear on Europe, with the practical needs of the hour standing in contradistinction to the age-old religious authority, sectarian antagonism and the recovered Greco-Roman intellectual tradition. How in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moronification of society</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main aim of technology today is to moronify the society at large. Smaller and smaller number of people are using more and more of their intellect so that the others do not have to use theirs at all.]]></description>
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		<title>What the hell is Karka Rog? A question for IBN7</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian television channel IBN7 carries a message in Devanagari script: Dhoomrapaan se karka rog ho sakta hai: Smoking can cause ‘karka rog’ . Some clever chap, showing off his pseudo-learning , has rendered cancer as karka rog. The term cancer is Latin for Crab. The Sanskrit equivalent is karka, which in Hindi becomes kekda. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sur Kshetra: a Hindi television program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sur Kshetra is a well meaning watchable popular program currently showing on Indian television  It revolves around healthy competition between two  teams of Indian and Pakistani singers, which are judged by a panel of three judges drawn from Bangla Desh, India and Pakistan.They are well known singers in their own right: Runa Laila, Asha Bhosle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Peace Prize 2012  for European Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether the European Union should have been awarded this year&#8217;s nobel Peace Prize may be debated. But there can be no doubt that it needs the money.]]></description>
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		<title>Hindoo College Calcutta Revisited: Its pre-history and the role of Rammohun Roy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar (2012) Science and Culture,  Vol. 78, No. 7-8 (Jul-Aug), pp. 280-305. (Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture delivered under the auspices of Indian Science News Association, Kolkata, 28 July 2011). The May 1816 decision to establish the (school section of) Hindoo College Calcutta “for the tuition of sons of respectable Hindus” was immediately recognized as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kodaikanal Observatory as a potential world astronomy heritage site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colloquium given at Indian  Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore, 25 September 2012 Rajesh Kochhar President IAU Commission 41: History of Astronomy Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali rkochhar2000@yahoo.com As is well known, Unesco has a mission to safeguard and preserve world heritage sites. Towards this end, it prepares a World Heritage List, in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interesting insight into Chinese efficiency</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I spent two weeks in a hotel in Beijing. I needed an adaptor to get power supply for my laptop from the mains. I was given an adaptor, but was asked to leave 100 Yuan as a  refundable deposit . Interestingly, the number on the currency note was noted down and that very note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why does a week have seven days and how are they ordered?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A week is an artificial unit of time. It has seven days because there were seven geocentric planets. It is however not at all obvious how the names of week days are arranged. The prescription is rather involved. First, arrange the planets in order of increasing orbital period, which is qualitatively the same thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are Rahu and Ketu?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rahu and Ketu are two astro-mythological terms of Vedic vintage which underwent change and expansion of meaning in 6th century CE. Contrary to many statements in print and on the internet, the Rgveda does not mention Rahu. In the Rgveda, eclipses of the Sun and the Moon take place when they are swallowed by an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Indians shake their head from side to side even when they seem to be saying yes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; There are two obvious movements of the head: up and down, and side-ways. The up-and-down movement is universally understood to denote agreement. The side-to- side movement of the head is generally taken to mean no, but India is an exception. Why is this so? At the very outset, it needs to be recognized that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is bastard such a serious abuse in India unlike in England where it is a term of endearment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In English-speaking cultures, bastard can be interpreted as a person whose parents out of laziness or otherwise could not get married in time. In Hindi/ Urdu, the word for bastard is haraam-zaadah, born out of illegitimacy. In India, respectable boys and girls did not interact at all before marriage. The only woman a man could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Americans address one another by their first name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One plausible explanation is this. Early American colonies tended to define themselves using England as a negative bench mark. England was a very hierarchical society which placed great value on old families. Old documents do not mention first name, they routinely refer to a person by his family name as if any one who mattered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is a restaurant called hotel in Hindi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is obviously not possible to give a precise answer to the question. One can only speculate. Traditionally, Indians took their meals at home, their own or somebody elses. Sancks could be eaten from a kiosk or a hawker.The only pepole who ate out were the travellers who stayed in ahotel. Thus the only restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panjab University:The heroic days</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar (An abridged version was published in The Tribune  Chandigarh (op-ed) on 1 October 2007 ( 60th anniversary of the University) under the title “60 Years of Panjab University in pursuit of excellence”. Panjab University Chandigarh completed sixty years of its eventful existence on 1 October 2007. Though numbers such as 60 or 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surveyors General in British India during 1767-1884</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surveyors General in the  Presidencies 1767-1815 A. Bengal 1767-1777 James Rennell 1777-1786 Thomas Call 1786-1788 Mark Wood !788-1794 Alexander Kyd 1794-1808 Robert Colebrooke 1808-1813 John Garstin 1813-1815 Charles Crawford. B. Bombay 1796-1807 Charles Reynolds 1807-1815 Monier Williams C. Madras 1810-1815 Colin Mackenzie Surveyors General of India 1815-&#62; 1815-1821 Colin Mackenzie 1821-1823 John Hodson 1823-1826 Valentine Blacker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malwa’s ‘cancer belt’ desperate for government attention ( News item  2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Tribune ( Online edition) Punjab stories, 14 November 2006 Malwa’s ‘cancer belt’ desperate for government attention  Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service Jajjal (Talwandi Sabo), November 13 Finally the Punjab Chief Minister is home after his much-touted Vikas Yatra. And dust along the roads of Malwa’s cotton belt seem to have settled somewhat. What’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has history been unkind to Bose? Not quite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar If we feel aggrieved that the West has not done enough for our heroes of yesteryear, it is because of our present-day inadequacies EXPERIMENTAL identification of a subatomic particle postulated half a century ago by British Professor Peter Higgs is one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the century. Never before has technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ayurveda: Origins and evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar The article looks at the origins of the ancient Indian health-care system known as Ayurveda.It summarize important information on influential books , their contents , authors and chronology. Quest for good health and long life is probably as old as human existence itself. Human beings have always believed that they are entitled to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicky Donor: A film review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vicky Donor is a rather low-budget bold and interesting movie that has done well commercially.It deals with the story of a young Punjabi who permits himself to be persuaded to donate his sperm for the benefit of childless couples. The film makes light hearted digs at Punjabis and Bengalis; shows un-offensive banter between mother-in-law and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Sanskrit education in North India (1600-1800): Curriculum, teachers and methods of learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali 140306, Punjab, India rkochhar2000@yahoo.com Lecture delivered at London School of Economics ( Department of Economic History, URKEW), 11 November 2011 Most of the sacred literature in Sanskrit was composed much before any script was introduced into India. Even when Sanskrit started being written down, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian science policy in the globalization era</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar (Lecture delivered at Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, 29 August 2007) The term science policy does not command immediate recognition the way foreign policy and economic policy do. This is because the public perception of science in India has been fashioned by the Nehruvian era of innocence and idealism. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Comedy Circus on Indian television: A comment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extent to which the new social class of India has got decoupled from India was brought home strikingly a few days ago in the popular Indian TV show called Comedy Circus produced by Sony TV, and judged by Archana Puran Singh and Tusshar Kapoor ( I do not know whether this is the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scriptures, science and mythology: An ancient Indian astronomical interplay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lecture delivered at Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna, 1 July 2010 Rajesh Kochhar CSIR Emeritus Scientist Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali rkochhar2000@yahoo.com Human beings are born astronomers. Ever since they learnt to walk upright they have looked at the sky and wondered. The sky has remained the same but its meaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Petrie (d.1816), Madras Civil Servant 1765-1812 and Governor,Penang 1812-1816</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar William Petrie (d.1816) was an influential Madras Civil Servant of the English East India Company who remained in India from 1765 till 1812 with some breaks, and later (1812-1816) held the office of Governor of Prince of Wales Island, that is Penang. Though not an astronomer himself, he set up a private astronomical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Fellow’s Ship from Bombay for the British in Baltimore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rare copy of the first edition of the lyrics and music of what became the US National Anthem has recently been auctioned for a record price of 500,000 dollars. As is well known the draft lyric was written by Francis Scott Key (1780-1843) on the night of 13-14 September 1814 while he was detained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization and the de-nationalization of Indian middle class</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar CSIR Emeritus Scientist Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Sector 26, Chandigarh 160019, India rkochhar2000@yahoo.com Paper presented at the 39th annual conference of Mid-Atlantic Region  Association of Asian studies(MAR/AAS) Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa, 22 October 2010 The most remarkable feature of the Indian middle class (IMC) today is that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quran-burning: A dangerous and mad move</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar In the 16th century, the Portuguese were well entrenched on India&#8217;s west coast and controlled the Arabian Sea. Combining commercial greed and religious fervor, they looted the returning Hadj ships which carried out trade as well. In one such raid, the Portuguese tied the Quran to a dog&#8217;s tail.The Mughal Emperor Akbar was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rahu and Ketu  in mythological and “astronomological” contexts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indian Journal of History of Science, Vol, 45, no.2, June 2010, pp. 287-297 Rajesh Kochhar Abstract Rahu and Katu were deployed as planetary deities in the sixth century CE immediately after the mathematical theory of eclipses was propounded by Aryabhata. Their literary credentials however go back to early Vedic times. Here our aim is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling literary standards in radio and television in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune Chandigar 4 July 2010 Letter to Editor The article on All India Radio makes interesting reading (Perspective, June 27). There is a need to arrest a recent negative trend, especially in Hindi and Punjabi programmes. A significant fraction of radio audience does not know English. And yet, the announcers (or radio jockeys) have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murder by negligence: From university laboratory to scrap yard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar THE world has sat up and taken note of the recent mishap in Delhi where trashed radioactive material — Cobalt 60 — has already killed a person and severely damaged many others. Cobalt 60 is an artificially produced radio isotope which emits extremely energetic radiation. It is routinely used the world over in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India’s lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan &#8211; I  in a wider context</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India successfully launched its first unmanned spacecraft, Chandrayaan-I, on 22 October 2008. On 14 November 2008, it entered its final operational orbit at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface. The same day, Moon Impact Probe (MIP) was released to hit the southern pole of the Moon .Much to the delight of the Indians, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glimpses of Colonial India.2.College of Fort William, Calcutta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[College of Fort William, Calcutta, which was opened in 1800, instructed the newly appointed East India Company officials in vernacular languages.The professors were all European, but their assistants, called Munshis, were native. In the College setting the master- slave relationship transcended the student- teacher relationship In 1810, a student named Kennedy beat his teacher, Ananda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glimpses of Colonial India. 1. Elihu Yale in Madras</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American-born Elihu Yale (1649-1721) is best known as the benefactor of what was later named Yale University. He was the governor of Madras from 1687 to 1692. The following incident was characteristic of him. His native  butler left his service without proper notice.Yale directed that he should be hanged.The British law indeed  prescribed death sentence for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights : A historical perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presented at Second International Law Conference organized by Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, 15 Nov. 2004. Rajesh Kochhar Indian nationalist leadership of the late 19th century was in a confused state of mind. It could not decide whether it should challenge the colonial empire’s might and incur its wrath or appeal to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Afghanistan, and an ancient wisdom tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a Lion who faced a peculiar problem. When he took dinner, pieces of meat stuck in his mien. When he went to sleep , a Rat would come and disturb the sleep.The Lion then hired a Cat whose job was to keep the Rat at bay.In return the Cat could partake the Lion&#8217;s dinner. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pride and Peeve:  India and the Nobel science prizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar So far four genetic Indians have won the Nobel science prize: Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (awarded 1930), Hargobind Khorana (1968), Subramanya Chandrasekhar ( 1983), and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009). Of these only the first one, Raman, was an Indian citizen and the work done was in India. All others acquired US citizenship and worked in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gandhi versus the Nobel peace prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar There are two annual exercises associated with Nobel peace prize. While Norway announces the winner in October, India bemoans why Mahatma Gandhi did not win the prize. If Gandhi’s assassination had been delayed by nine months he might have died a Nobel laureate. Would this have elevated his place in history? It would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel peace prize for Barack Obama:Advance payment for goods to be supplied</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar The award of 2009 Nobel peace prize to Barack Obama  is a new experiment. It is like advance payment for goods to be delivered. A science Nobel prize  opens up the field for future Nobel prizes. But peace is a goal. If all the Nobel peace prize winners in the past 100 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information and communication technology: Role of war and pornography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar DIMENSIONS of SCIENCE Lecture on 10 June 2003 at India International Centre, New Delhi War and pornography have played a significant role in the development of information and communication technology (ICT).Both war and porn are manifestation of baser instincts in man and therefore demand a certain degree of perseverance from their patrons. War, or more correctly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A universal history of astronomy as an educational aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar Invited  talk delivered at XXVII General Assembly of International Astronomical Union  Special Session 4: Astronomy Education between Past and Future, Rio de Janeiro 6 August 2009 A man is wise with the wisdom of his age only, and ignorant with its ignorance.    -Henry David Thoreau History is an exercise in constructing the past carried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientist in  exile [ Subramanya Chandrasekhar]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 alive. I sent him a copy. His response makes interesting reading. He wrote in a personal letter dated 5 Aug 1991: “It is always interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Raja Jai Singh a plagiarist ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Jaipur that would have intrigued many a passer-by are in fact scientific instruments improvised and built, at least as wax models, by Jai Singh himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The wrong Bose at Como</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 speakers in the function was Debendra Mohan Bose (1885-1975) the nephew of the famed Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose (1858-1937) and a well known physicist. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aryabhata reinstalled</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar Aryabhata (born AD 476) is the founder of Siddhantic astronomy which focused on developing mathematical algorithms for calculating planetary orbits and for predicting lunar and solar eclipses. His concise text, composed in AD 499 and known simply as Aryabhatiyam ( Aryabhata’s), influenced all subsequent work on the subject. From Aryabhata’s time till that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Vizier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rajesh Kochhar Times of India (edit  page) 6 February 1987 This is a parable highlighting how  every one in a hierarchy is a pawn, to be used, manipulated, and sacrificed if needed.  The action takes place on a chess board. Note taht in India and the &#8220;Middle East&#8221;, chessmen are named differently compared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SECONDARY TOOLS OF EMPIRE:Jesuit Men of Science in India (1994)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 07:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    R.K.KOCHHAR   (Source: ‘Discoveries, Missionary Expansion and Asian Cultures’,  edited by Teotonio R. de Souza ( New Delhi :Concept Publishing Company) 1994, pp.175-183)   The arrival of St. Francis Xavier at Goa on 6th May. 1542, is an even of singular importance. He was the first Jesuit in India, and man others were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GROWTH OF MODERN ASTRONOMY IN INDIA, 1651-1960</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Vistas in Astronomy, Vol. 34, pp. 69&#8211;105, 1991      R. K. Kochhar Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560034, India   CONTENTS 1. Ancient and medieval times 2. Use of telescope in the 17th century 3. Advent of modern astronomy in the 18th century 4. Madras Observatory (1786-1899) 5. Great Trigonometrical Survey of India [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the origin of the Punjabi Khatris</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 13:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Rajesh Kochhar rkochhar2000@yahoo.com   This essay first describes how the question of Punjabi Khatri identity arose as part of colonial ethnology. It then briefly reviews the structure and the legends. Finally a hypothesis is  proposed to explain the origin of the Khatri caste and its relationships:   i.                    Persons of Greek extraction who had [...]]]></description>
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