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…
Author of The Vedic People ( Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, 1715-1835 (Routledge), Sanskrit & British Empire ( Routledge), and (Jointly with Jayant Narlikar) of Astronomy in India (INSA).
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…
Lecture delivered at Centre for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore, 29 August 2007 The term science policy does not command immediate recognition the way foreign policy and economic policy do. This is…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
Foundation Day Lecture of the Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education, delivered at Bangalore University 25 Jan. 2008 A shorter version appeared in The Hindu, 24 Feb. 2008 Genetic engineering…