Gandhi versus the Nobel peace prize
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…
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HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Publications and texts of (select) invited lectures, etc.
Nobel peace prize for Barack Obama:Advance payment for goods to be supplied
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…
Information and communication technology: Role of war and pornography
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…
A universal history of astronomy as an educational aid
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…
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…