Rukmini Bhaya Nair
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My Encounters With Stephen Hawking In Delhi
As a scientist, he exemplifies for me the best of the humanities, of what it can mean to be someone who lived almost his whole adult life entirely dependent on other humans for physical help but whose mind was ever independent, questing and transcendent.
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What The Suicides At IIT Tell Us About Where We're Going Wrong
The youth of this country are, in effect, sending our planners and politicians a strong message. But is anyone listening?
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Yes, Sanskrit At IITs May Be A Good Idea. But Conditions Must Apply.
Given the recent perturbations round an ancient language, this may be as good a time as any to review the possible contribution that Sanskrit, as well as the many languages of modern India, can make to intellectual paradigm-shifts in an age of virtual reality.
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Analysis Of Rohith Vemula's Suicide Note
Rohith sees himself condemned to live in a world of mean and heartless human distinctions, including but not confined to caste, where personhood is reduced "To a vote. To a number. To a thing."
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Bag Wapasi in Delhi
There's no denying that awful ills beset our capital and our country at large but, equally, a limitless resource that we can bank on without hesitation has to be the collective conscience and individual good sense of India's ordinary citizens.
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Why Aren't Scientists Returning Awards?
If the spate of Award-wapsi is a 'motivated protest' by persons who have been patronized by the Congress or the Left, that would be as true of the scientists. Why then have few, if any, scientists protested publicly?
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In Cold Blood - Why Sheena Bora Case Grips Us
Those closest to us (trusted parents, children, friends) can always hurt us the most and cases like the Mukerjea-Bora one show up this awful possibility. That is why they grip us.
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Why IIT Founder Nehru Wanted Arts for Engineers
For the most part, I believe, the long suffering IIT students seem to enjoy their 'HUKKAH' courses because these allow them, as they sweetly put, to 'learn to relax'.
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4 Urgent Questions Provoked by the IIT Roorkee Controversy
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence from the IITs, old and new, to suggest that poorer, rural students are finding it increasingly hard to keep up with others in both classroom and social space.
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The Pros and Cons of PM Modi's Silence
His 'freedom of speech' is, so to speak, restricted by what he does not know.
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An IIT Teacher's View on the Madras Controversy
If the political right to protest is sacred, both inside and outside Parliament where so many 'unacceptable' statements have been made of late, then so is the individual right to dissent.
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Dear Universities, Is Menstruation Unacceptable
We continue in many ways to be a 'chee chee!' culture, says Rukmini Bhaya Nair.
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What Deepika Padukone Has To Do With Budget 2015
Budget Day in Mumbai was rainy and grey. Dalal Street must have been abuzz but fewer than usual of the city's inhabitants were out on the streets. Those who were, though, would be dwarfed by huge hoardings of Deepika Padukone everywhere.
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Kejriwal, Nitish and the Art of Saying Sorry
Rukmini Bhaya Nair on what's changed for the Indian neta.
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AAP and its Anarchy
How will it balance anarchy with governance, asks Rukmini Bhaya Nair.
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My Encounters With Stephen Hawking In Delhi
As a scientist, he exemplifies for me the best of the humanities, of what it can mean to be someone who lived almost his whole adult life entirely dependent on other humans for physical help but whose mind was ever independent, questing and transcendent.
-
What The Suicides At IIT Tell Us About Where We're Going Wrong
The youth of this country are, in effect, sending our planners and politicians a strong message. But is anyone listening?
-
Yes, Sanskrit At IITs May Be A Good Idea. But Conditions Must Apply.
Given the recent perturbations round an ancient language, this may be as good a time as any to review the possible contribution that Sanskrit, as well as the many languages of modern India, can make to intellectual paradigm-shifts in an age of virtual reality.
-
Analysis Of Rohith Vemula's Suicide Note
Rohith sees himself condemned to live in a world of mean and heartless human distinctions, including but not confined to caste, where personhood is reduced "To a vote. To a number. To a thing."
-
Bag Wapasi in Delhi
There's no denying that awful ills beset our capital and our country at large but, equally, a limitless resource that we can bank on without hesitation has to be the collective conscience and individual good sense of India's ordinary citizens.
-
Why Aren't Scientists Returning Awards?
If the spate of Award-wapsi is a 'motivated protest' by persons who have been patronized by the Congress or the Left, that would be as true of the scientists. Why then have few, if any, scientists protested publicly?
-
In Cold Blood - Why Sheena Bora Case Grips Us
Those closest to us (trusted parents, children, friends) can always hurt us the most and cases like the Mukerjea-Bora one show up this awful possibility. That is why they grip us.
-
Why IIT Founder Nehru Wanted Arts for Engineers
For the most part, I believe, the long suffering IIT students seem to enjoy their 'HUKKAH' courses because these allow them, as they sweetly put, to 'learn to relax'.
-
4 Urgent Questions Provoked by the IIT Roorkee Controversy
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence from the IITs, old and new, to suggest that poorer, rural students are finding it increasingly hard to keep up with others in both classroom and social space.
-
The Pros and Cons of PM Modi's Silence
His 'freedom of speech' is, so to speak, restricted by what he does not know.
-
An IIT Teacher's View on the Madras Controversy
If the political right to protest is sacred, both inside and outside Parliament where so many 'unacceptable' statements have been made of late, then so is the individual right to dissent.
-
Dear Universities, Is Menstruation Unacceptable
We continue in many ways to be a 'chee chee!' culture, says Rukmini Bhaya Nair.
-
What Deepika Padukone Has To Do With Budget 2015
Budget Day in Mumbai was rainy and grey. Dalal Street must have been abuzz but fewer than usual of the city's inhabitants were out on the streets. Those who were, though, would be dwarfed by huge hoardings of Deepika Padukone everywhere.
-
Kejriwal, Nitish and the Art of Saying Sorry
Rukmini Bhaya Nair on what's changed for the Indian neta.
-
AAP and its Anarchy
How will it balance anarchy with governance, asks Rukmini Bhaya Nair.
