Janaki Jambunathan
Active member
Nobel Laureate calls it Indian Science Circus
Ramakrishnan had told TOI on Tuesday that he would never attend the ISC ever as it was a "circus where very little science was discussed". This is for second year in a row that the congress is in the eye of the storm. Last year, attempts to saffronise the congress held in Mumbai - with one participant even delivering a lecture saying aircraft was invented by a sage in the Vedic times - had met with strong resistance.
Things haven't changed this year as well
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...cus-Scientists-split/articleshow/50476408.cms
Shiva as a great environmentalist in the world," is the title of a paper that will be presented at the 103rd Indian Science Congress at the University of Mysore on Wednesday. According to the two-page abstract of the paper, accessed by Mirror, followers of Hinduism understood the importance of a clean environment well in advance.
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&r...QFd1PEKSoeT4kE9Ng&sig2=FTLLowiRvu0-Q0gmUuRkMw
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Ramakrishnan had told TOI on Tuesday that he would never attend the ISC ever as it was a "circus where very little science was discussed". This is for second year in a row that the congress is in the eye of the storm. Last year, attempts to saffronise the congress held in Mumbai - with one participant even delivering a lecture saying aircraft was invented by a sage in the Vedic times - had met with strong resistance.
Things haven't changed this year as well
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...cus-Scientists-split/articleshow/50476408.cms
Shiva as a great environmentalist in the world," is the title of a paper that will be presented at the 103rd Indian Science Congress at the University of Mysore on Wednesday. According to the two-page abstract of the paper, accessed by Mirror, followers of Hinduism understood the importance of a clean environment well in advance.
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&r...QFd1PEKSoeT4kE9Ng&sig2=FTLLowiRvu0-Q0gmUuRkMw
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