Subhash Kak

How can minister of state for human resource development Satyapal Singh be so ill-informed about science?

Somebody in the West Bengal government has acted like a ramchagol!

There were many sciences based on fundamental principles and empirical observations, and without any mention of gods.

New trade protocols will be developed that are less disruptive to society than what people have voted against.

Is it just a coincidence that we are currently ranked 61 in the medals won at the Olympics?

Our marvellous tradition goes back to a 2,500-year-old text of physics.

Now that Mahagatbandhan has won, perhaps looking at less serious matters will lighten up things.

There are those who consider a lecture on ancient discipline as intolerable as a beheading.

Historians undoubtedly believe that Baudhayana in around 800 BC stated the theorem and also provided a geometrical proof.

Our college intakes in different programmes are set in stone, based on some ideal student-faculty ratio.

They are both capable of profound self-deception.

The post-independence educational institution was not designed for world-class excellence, but rather to train students.

If students had access to authoritative narratives of Indian science in the university, they would not pay attention to outlandish claims of ancient flying machines.

Can a case be made to teach these centuries old clever mathematical algorithms to motivate students to learn the subject?

Critics are prepared to speak positively of asanas but will not grant anything more.