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…
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India’s lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan – I in a wider context
India successfully launched its first unmanned spacecraft, Chandrayaan-I, on 22 October 2008. On 14 November 2008, it entered its final operational orbit at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface.…
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…