Category: Technology in India

Visvesvaraya, Mulberry Bush and Acharya JC Bose

Micro-post of the week, in which I wonder why the “Popular Book Shop”, located inside the Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum had a loud “Mulberry Bush” nursery rhyme playing in the background, “..This is...

A Rebuttal to “Eminent Historians”: Lies and more lies

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...

Bacteria that “eat” carbon dioxide

From a recent article in VC Circle: Global warming, air pollution and other problems related to the emission of Co2 (carbon dioxide) may partially get solved as a group of five scientists from four...

“Imagining India” – A Book Review

At first glance, Nandan Nilekani’s “Imagining India” is daunting. 500+ pages, densely packed with statistics, policy prescriptions and anecdotes do not make for easy bedtime reading…yet I found it highly engaging and written in...