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Rajesh Kochhar

Author of The Vedic People ( Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, 1715-1835 (Routledge), and (jointly with Jayant Narlikar) of Astronomy in India (INSA)

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Is studying science history? ( 2008)

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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 rightly proposed that 2008 be made the year of revitalisation of science education in the country. The decline of science ( continue reading… )

Science policy in India in the globalization era (2007)

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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 because the  public perception of science in India  has been fashioned by  the  Nehruvian era of innocence and idealism. In  ( continue reading… )

Heavens within grasp ( LHC)

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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.”  Many astronomers believe that when Robert Browning wrote these lines he had them in mind. But now the ( continue reading… )

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