Mahant, Sarayu, and Ram
UP Government’s decision to install a tall statue of Bhagvan Shri Ram on the banks of river Sarayu is highly objectionable on the ground that it would reduce a worshipful…
Category: Publications
HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Publications and texts of (select) invited lectures, etc.
Renaming Shimla mocking history
Neither tradition, nor any documentation links Shimla with any deity. The imagined association is a back-formation and a mindless exercise in Sanskritisation. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/weekly-pullouts/himachal-tribune/renaming-shimla-mocking-history/674135.html
Pages from an unwritten diary
A match was arranged between a girl and a boy. Evverything was fine except for the postal address of the girl’s family who lived on GB Road in Delhi, well…
Meghnad Saha: Work, life, and times
Calcutta-based Meghnad Saha (1893-1955) set out his theory to explain stellar spectra in a number of papers published in British journals during 1920-1921. The work was immediately recognized as laying…
Indian astrology: Vedic and post-Vedic
Rajesh Kochhar The oldest astronomical text in India is Vedanga Jyotisha, which is a part of the Vedic corpus. Its oldest parts could be as old as 1400 BCE. Asoka’s…
Hindu Dharma Shastra and gay sex
Dr Subramanian Swamy belongs to that rare class of men who do not need any supporting evidence for the assertions they make. He has declared that homosexuality is against Hinduism..…
Hindu sacred texts vis-a-vis archaeology
Rajesh Kochhar Thoreau very wisely wrote that ‘A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance’. When people draw conclusions and make observations…