nanopolitan

Biman Nath , a professor of astrophysics at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, has a great article in Frontline about the development of ...

This year's Infosys Prize winner from our Institute, Prof. Jayant Haritsa, has a blog post at the Infosys Science Foundation website: Wh...

Sidebar See also: Jayant Narlikar: Going Back in Time -- Science and Technology in Epics ( The Times of India 1995). Mayank Vahia (TIF...

Relevant to the goings on at Science Congress : H.S. Mukunda et al (1974): A critical study of the work “Vymanika Shastra” . [Hat tip to V. ...

... is a session on Ancient Sciences through Sanskrit -- see page 20 of the program . Some of the talks in the session have attracted media...

ToI reports that while MHRD is yet to forward Shevgaonkar's resignation letter to the President, it is still keen on nailing him for t...

Amerikka Desi (அமெரிக்க தேசி) is my first Tamil novel (yes, you read that right; no spelling mistakes from my end either) published by Tam...

Basant Kumar Mohanty of The Telegraph makes an excellent catch ! The HRD ministry had sought the DoPT's views after the tech school ci...

Two important constituencies back Shevgaonkar: IIT-D faculty and IIT-D alumni . In an effort to debunk all kinds of allegations emanating ...

Three things. First, via The Telegraph , we get some details on how Prof. Shevgaonkar was being pressured into settling the Subramanian...

Shocking , if true: IIT Delhi director Raghunath K Shevgaonkar has quit more than two years before the end of his term. A senior IIT offic...

This month saw two significant events in higher ed elsewhere. The first was in the US, where the Department of Education released a "d...

A neat study by Ian Gregory-Smith, David Paton, Abhinav Sacheti -- Not really cricket: Home bias in officiating -- confirms what many fans ...

Vi Hart and Nicki Case have created a web page with very instructive browser-based and visually attractive simulations: Parable of the Polyg...

Miki Tanikawa of NYTimes profiles Prof. Yoko Tanaka , the first woman to lead a "major Japanese University": The traditional, m...