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Excerpts from the chapters “Scientific Temper” and “Religious Inquiries and Rationalism” from ‘Please Think: Practical Lessons in Developing a Scientific Temper’ by the rationalist.
An excerpt from ‘Our Santiniketan’ by Mahasweta Devi, the famous writer and activist, translated from Bengali by Radha Chakravarty.
Recalling the role that the educated, upper-caste, upper-class young woman from Mumbai, Godavari Parulekar, played in the famous Warli revolt that she led from 1945 to 1947, wherein she taught the Adivasis of Dahanu and Talasari tehsils to ‘fight well’, and free themselves from oppressive practices of decades.
Albert Einstein’s analysis of the “spookiness” of quantum mechanics opened up a whole range of applications including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics – and that story is as fascinating as the theory he attempted to nail down.
Muskan Khan, a 19-year-old student, lived an ordinary life in the south Karnataka town of Mandya before an extraordinary moment of courage and resistance brought her national fame and converted her moment of bravery into an iconic image. She talks about her hijab, her values and everyone’s freedom to choose in this interview.
The understanding is that everything Hindu is Indian and cultural, while Muslim and Christian practices are not intrinsically Indian, they can never be culture, they will remain narrowly religious.
This is the year 2022, the target year the PM himself had set way back in 2016 for doubling farmers’ income. But like his other promises, this too was a mere jumla, the agricultural sector crisis continues, and so, predictably, this year’s budget speech makes no mention of this promise.
At a time when India seems to be ready to hand over its railways, highways, ports and pipelines to private hands on lease, these frauds come as a rude reminder of how the government is gambling with the savings of ordinary citizens.
Letter to the Supreme Court explaining the reasons for resigning as chairman and member of the High Powered Committee for the Char Dham Pariyojana.
Dr B.R. Ambedkar used different terms to address the community: ‘Untouchables’, ‘Depressed Classes’, and ‘Boycotted community’. Although he rarely used the term ‘Dalit’, he and his co-associates certainly used it.
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