Jawaharlal Nehru attended the Indian Science Congress each year, set up the IITs alongside the cultural academies, and managed to locate scientific temper in Indian culture.
Urdu Ghar brought home rare texts including Masnavi, Dariya-e-Ishq, Diwan-e-Haftum, Kulliyat-e-Mir from different parts of the world, including Pakistan, Iran and Malaysia.
Anand’s journey went beyond the poet-saint in The Notbook of Kabir. He explores the broader Bhakti tradition-poets who took anti-Sanskrit, anti-Vedic, anti-Brahminical positions.
At Delhi's IIC, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley talked about her book 'Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women'. These accounts break the stereotype of female seclusion in Muslim societies.
Amitav Ghosh gave a talk at the 41st CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at IIC, titled ‘Time of Monsters, Time of Possibilities: Reflections on an Interstitial Era’.
Amitava Kumar, speaking at the launch of The Green Book, said he isn't nervous about publishing. He encouraged the audience to keep diaries and write more.
'There’s a discourse that environmental law is highly bureaucratic and slow, but maybe we do need to slow down,' said author Arpitha Kodiveri at the launch of her book Governing Forests.
Alongside buying into the grift that is dating apps, the girlies are also installing astrology apps like Astrotalk to investigate the same tired mystery—will he ever text back?
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in Africa, offering significant returns on investment for all involved and achieving the continent’s goals for food security, dignified livelihoods and economic growth.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
This again appears to be in the league of Vir sanghvi ‘s propagandist line of argument. You and the erudite panel that you quote is only taking potshots on the PM ignoring the fact that the country is progressing on all fronts including Science. The establishment may have decried Nehru per se but never the scientific temperament. Please desist from propaganda from your platform.
This again appears to be in the league of Vir sanghvi ‘s propagandist line of argument. You and the erudite panel that you quote is only taking potshots on the PM ignoring the fact that the country is progressing on all fronts including Science. The establishment may have decried Nehru per se but never the scientific temperament. Please desist from propaganda from your platform.
We have Kamakoti, IIT Madras director saying that a sanyasi got cured of his high fever by drinking cow urine.