My friend Haresh Raichura wrote an interesting post on the power of attention to magnify things. You can read it here: New Laws of Science about Which We Are Not Ready Even To Listen Apart from it being a subject of my interest, it mixed several concepts to come up with ideas that were worth …
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 This paper closely follows the text of a paper presented at the National Seminar on the contributions of K. P. Chattopadhyay and Iravati Karve to the development of Social Anthropology, organised by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, September 8-9, 2009. The article hypothesises that the reason for …
Colonialism-in-the-Mind by Gouranga Chattopadhyay – Part 1 Read More »
Most people really have little clue about what they can do in case of a nuclear accident. Research and surveys conducted in Japan after the Fukushima meltdowns revealed that many people didn’t really know what they could do, and exposure to radiation among citizens could have been significantly lower if they knew what was safe, …
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The article “A new look at child abuse” details this kind of harm and I think it is worth reading to understand what exactly happens because of our schools other than marks and rote learning. And people not “in” on the vision are getting disenfranchised. Schools are simply creating templates of people with preinstalled data. It …
Twitter is ablaze with news of nuclear meltdown being imminent in Japan and some tweets are along the lines of “OMG! the reactors are going to explode! God save the world”. This sounds a little extreme, and I thought I’d share what I found out in extremely non-tech terms for anyone to get an overall …