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Tag Archives: Homi Bhabha
On the BBC, talking about Gaganyaan and inspiration
The BBC has produced a documentary podcast titled ‘Hope and fear: India’s space revolution’. Its host, Alok Jha of The Economist, interviewed me late last year as part of it, to provide a media perspective of the Indian space programme, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged Alok Jha, Anil Menon, Axiom-4 mission, BBC, Dave Anderson, Hirschman's linkage theory, Homi Bhabha, human spaceflight, Indian Space Research Organisation, inspiration, Jahnavi Phalkey, Madhavan Nair, national prestige, Shubhanshu Shukla, spin-off technologies, unbalanced growth
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The fever dream of ‘technological sovereignty’
I recently came across an initiative called “Industrial47”. Someone had shared a link to it on a group I’m part of, and when its card loaded, the image was of a nuclear weapon going off. I found on LinkedIn that … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Op-eds, Science
Tagged air pollution, air purifier, Brahmaputra river, farm fires, genius, Gita Chadha, Homi Bhabha, Indian Space Research Organisation, Industrial47, investment fund, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leona Woods, LinkedIn, nuclear weapon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reason of state, scientific superpower, scope creep, smokeless chulha, social harm, Social welfare, solar cooker, technological sovereignty, technologisation, The Hindu, Three Gorges dam, Walchand Hirachand, Yarlung Tsangpo river
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India’s science leadership
On October 17, the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) introduced a reading module for middle-school students called “Chandrayaan Utsav”. It was released by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the presence of S. Somanath, Chairman of the … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Atoms for Peace, Chandrayaan 3, Dharmendra Pradhan, Homi Bhabha, Indian Space Research Organisation, pseudoscience, S Somanath, scientific leadership
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