Gita Chadha

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The fever dream of 'technological sovereignty'

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Culture Op-eds Science air pollution air purifier Brahmaputra river farm fires genius Gita Chadha Homi Bhabha Indian Space Research Organisation Industrial47 investment fund J. Robert Oppenheimer Leona Woods LinkedIn nuclear weapon Prime Minister Narendra Modi reason of state scientific superpower scope creep smokeless chulha social harm Social welfare solar cooker technological sovereignty technologisation The Hindu Three Gorges dam Walchand Hirachand Yarlung Tsangpo river

I recently came across an initiative called “Industrial47”. Someone had shared a link to it on a group I’m part of, and when its card loaded, the image was of a nuclear weapon going off. I found on L…

An Upanishadic lesson for modern science?

6 min read
Analysis Culture Science Amit Chaudhuri Bhagavad Gita causality creation creator disinterestedness Eastern Philosophy genius genius construct Gita Chadha Immanuel Kant impersonality Isa Upanishad Kena Upanishad Lawrence M Krauss modern science New Critical Philosophy of Science power Richard Feynman scientific genius The Life of Science TS Eliot Upanishads Western philosophy

Do the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads lack the "baggage of biography" – to borrow Amit Chaudhuri's words – because we don't know who the authors, outside of the mythology, are or –…