I was alerted to this wonderful story by my brother-in-law, Prashant.  An excerpt from Burnt tyres and salt leads to rain? (emphasis mine):
…Dr Raja Marathe, IIT Bombay alumni and a former Naxal leader who returned to India from the United States a few years ago, may as well be known as Nanded’s rainman. Armed with burning tyres packed with salt, Marathe has single-handedly floated his own rain seeding project in the villages of Nanded (constituency of CM Ashok Chavan) called Lavan Vajra that has now been sanctioned by the collector …

Many of you must have read a report in The Hindu from a few weeks ago by unnamed “Eminent Historians” titled, “From ‘India Shining’ to ‘India was Shining’“. The report (dt. 3rd May) appeared to be an amateurish attempt at trashing some of the claims made in the BJP’s manifesto regarding India’s past and heritage.
It had excerpts from the BJP’s manifesto and brief counter-points dismissing the claims and assertions. Curiously – in spite of being authored by “Eminent Historians” – it was surprisingly light on references and historical sources.
Dr. …

Thanks to a comment left on this blog, I was alerted to this website maintained by Brian Champness and dedicated to the memory of one of the greatest scientists that India has produced in modern times – Sir J C Bose.
I have written about Acharya Bose before…but he deserves far more attention than one single post…and I was very glad when I came across Brian’s site in which he explores aspects of consciousness and feelings in plants – a subject first studied by Sir Bose and now coming inder increasing interest from …

Many of you may have come across this information about “Ancient Indian Scientists” before. I received it in a chain email but I shall be most grateful if any reader(s) have links or references to the original source(s). 
There are many assertions and statements here that have not been verified or explained (see e.g. the entry on Acharya Bharadwaj who is credited with advances in aviation technology*). We need to source and evidence these it to make it more credible.
Some excerpts below (statements on which I need help are marked in italics):
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ARYABHATT (476 CE), …

I recently stumbled across this article “Time Travel Machine Outlined” which provides food for thought for those who deride the stories in the puranas about “Vimanas” as mere myths.
The report talks about recent research at Haifa’s Israel Instt. of Technology that “could possibly enable distant future generations to travel into the past”
The hypothesis is – if space-time is bent far enough, so that time lines actually turn back on themselves to form a loop, such a manipulation could essentially get objects/people “back in time”.
Physicist Amos Ori whose findings are detailed in …

Some of you may have read an article I wrote more than two years ago, titled: “Does no one remember the Hindu contribution to Mathematics?”
I stumbled across a related piece recently: “Indians predated Newton ‘discovery’ by 250 years”
Dr George Joseph at the University of Manchester suggests in his latest research that the “Kerala school” identified the ‘infinite series’- one of the basic components of calculus – in about 1350 – hundreds of years before Newton.
His team also revealed that the Kerala School ”discovered what amounted to the Pi series and used it to calculate …

Thanks to Mohit who first alerted me to this site maintained by Varun Aggarwal on Sir J C Bose – the unsung hero of Indian Science.
Varun�s site details Sir J C Bose’s contribution to the field of physics and demonstrates beyond any doubt that he was the inventor of the radio which is mistakenly credited to Marconi (see also this wikipedia entry on Sir J C Bose).
The wikiepdia entry mentions, so spectacular were Bose’s achivements that Neville Francis Mott, Nobel Laureate in 1977 for his own contributions to solid-state electronics, …

This article was forwarded by a friend from UK. It is an extract of the UK Chancellor Gordon Brown’s speech while on a recent visit to Bangalore, (Jan 17 ‘07).
Excerpts (emphasis mine): 
“…Now as the Times of India has rightly said, India is poised: your time is now – “a pulsating dynamic new India is emerging…an India that does not follow but an India that leads…
…Let me first congratulate the Indian businesses here today for your individual and collective success – a success story now recognized and applauded in every continent.
…an …