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…
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INDIAN SCIENCE : Will India live up to promise ?
Power Politics, 2015 February India was the first country outside of Europe and America to take to modern science. It is exactly 120 years ago, on 1 May 1895, that…
Falsifying scientific data: Blot on Indian science
Rajesh Kochhar Scientific frauds take place all over the world. Once the news breaks out, a country which holds science in high esteem takes swift and stern action so that…
Pride and Peeve: India and the Nobel science prizes
Rajesh Kochhar So far four genetic Indians have won the Nobel science prize: Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (awarded 1930), Hargobind Khorana (1968), Subramanya Chandrasekhar ( 1983), and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009). Of…
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…
Subramanya Chandrasekhar : A tribute (1999)
The Tribune , Chandigarh, 27 July 1999 INDIA -BORN US ASTROPHYSICIST Chandra observatory: tribute to a legend Rajesh Kochhar The recent X-ray observatory launched into space by the USA has…