The Raja of Nanpara and his daily Scotch
Rajesh Kochhar The personal staff of the Raja of Nanpara, in the 1920s and 1930s, would surely have voted the Raja as the Best Ever Employer. Nanpara was a big…
Category: Publications
HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Publications and texts of (select) invited lectures, etc.
Why Indian varsities lag behind
Rajesh Kochhar Power Politics, January 2016 It is a matter of deep regret that even 60 years after Independence, India is not able to evaluate its own academic performance. In…
Rigvedic people not Harappans, Naditama Saraswati is Helmand in Afghanistan: Rajesh Kochhar
http://www.newsgram.com/49670-2-rigvedic-people-were-not-harappans-naditama-saraswati-was-hemland-in-afghanistan-rajesh-kochhar/ By Nithin Sridhar The Aryan Question: Part 3 The Aryan question has been hanging for many decades without any conclusion, but with a lot of controversies and politics being…
A.P. J. Abdul Kalam: Reminiscences
Rajesh Kochhar Former President Abdul Kalam’s academic credentials were rather modest. Although ‘Dr’ is commonly prefixed to his name, all his doctorates were honorary. He obtained his B.…
Lousy science and growth
Arunabha Bagchi Published in The Statesman, Kolkata, 15 May 2015 Western industry and academia, with their huge financial resources, are waiting in the wings to grab our trained scientists free of cost…
Twisting tradition: The curious case of a seedy medicine
Rajesh Kochhar and Ramesh Kapoor Recently, Sh. K. C. Tyagi, a Rajya Sabha MP, speaking in the House, protested against an Ayurvedic medicine, Putrajeevak Beej, on the ground…
The rivers Sarasvati: Reconciling the sacred texts
Rajesh Kochhar Sarasvati is mentioned prominently, repeatedly and in detail in the Rigveda as a real river. It also figures in the secondary Vedic literature as well as in…