A schizophrenic India cannot advance scientifically
India is subjecting itself to contrary pulls. It wants to be reckoned among powerhouses of modern science and technology. At the same time it is obsessed with its past and…
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Government College University Lahore: Book Review
This is an enlarged version of the Book Review published in TheTribune(Spectrum) 22 October 2017 http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/books-reviews/making-of-an-institution/485000.html BOOK REVIEW Khalid Aftab (2017) Against All Odds: Institute Building in the Real World…
Sky as a bridge: Transmission of Indian astronomy to China, Korea and Japan
Rajesh Kochhar Abstract (Please write to me if you want the full text.) Ancient cultural tradition of the Indian subcontinent (India for short) is characterized by a combination of three…
The Making of Scientific, Industrial and Arrogant Europe
Throughout the 19th century in its encounters with the East Europe was in a learning mode. Cultural superiority and racial arrogance set in in England in the 1830s. See…
Rankling rankings: Govt shouldn’t abdicate its responsibility in education
The Tribune Chandigarh, Opinion page, 4 November 2012 Excerpts: THIS year’s rankings of world universities spring no surprises as far as India is concerned. India as before is placed very low.…
Sur Kshetra: a Hindi television program
Sur Kshetra is a well meaning watchable popular program currently showing on Indian television It revolves around healthy competition between two teams of Indian and Pakistani singers, which are judged…
Falling literary standards in radio and television in India
The Tribune Chandigar 4 July 2010 Letter to Editor The article on All India Radio makes interesting reading (Perspective, June 27). There is a need to arrest a recent negative…