Undeterred by colonial subversion, India’s intellectuals and scientists took a diplomatic detour to push indigenous efforts to study, propagate and utilise modern science for country’s benefit. The chronicle of modern science in India is astonishing. It has been a collective effort of an ensemble of institution builders, scientists,
India is a nature venerating civilization. But since the establishment of modern universities in the 1850s in India, colonial citadels hindered this civilizational sentiment. Now with India coming into its own, such illicit citadels are collapsing. In the recent 2021 monsoon session of the Lok Sabha, the Indian government has
India’s space reforms have the potential to boost India-Taiwan space relations beyond the pure scientific domain. The two countries have the potential for collaboration between space start-ups, joint ventures, investments, and technology and infrastructure-sharing. This article highlights the scope for India to establish Track 1.5
The tremendous international popularity of Yoga can help propagate AYUSH-centric wellness, which has proved to be of immense importance during the ongoing pandemic. Since India began experiencing lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prophylactic remedies, immunity-boosting supplements, and medicinal and agricultural commodities have garnered tremendous attention. The
The Indian administration enacted much-needed space reforms in 2020, paving the way for a private space industry in the country. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has suspended space launch activities in the country. The Department of Space must remove these redundancies to make India’s space launch centers and
The United Nations India and O.P. Jindal University had invited me to speak on ethics of artificial intelligence, as these two institutions were exploring pluri-perspectives on it during the summer of 2021. I did what was told, offered them a perspective of an Indian natural scientist. Sharing my
In the increasingly competitive, crowded and commercial domain of space, India must pull together the ‘Trimurti’ of its civilian, commercial and military heft for a robust SSA A colossal volume of water has flown in the past 23 years since India began celebrating its National Technology Day on May 11.
Today, April 29, 2021, the third-largest launch vehicle in the world, the Long March 5, decorated with a large CMS (China Manned Space) logo, carried the first and core module, Tianhe-1, of the Large Modular Chinese Space Station. China’s current accomplishment is the culmination of its aim,
A recent treaty between China and Russia makes it plain to India that leaving space exploration to a few science aficionados can be dangerous. India needs a national space exploration strategy with tangible economic and meta-strategic goals in sight. The People’s Republic of China celebrates its National Space
Early this week, on 19th April 2021, the US space agency NASA achieved a rare feat, a first of its kind. NASA demonstrated a powered flight using a coaxial rotor drone, weighing merely 1.8 kilograms, from the surface of Mars. The INGENUITY, as the drone is called dotingly, was
The process of validating vaccines for public inoculation is methodical and tedious. The process is so quantitatively pragmatic that a decimal difference in the vaccine's efficacy matters a lot. There are many boxes to tick. The first box to check is vaccine efficacy; the second is the ease
India has had big successes during its first stint as an observer in the Arctic Council. Since then, the country has made substantial progress in its climate action pledges and developed comprehensive strategies to mitigate climate change. With its re-election, India can now offer much more to the global