Indian Science: Concern over Quality

Two short accounts of the habits of pseudapocryptes lanceolatus were communicated by me to the Indian Science Congress and were published in the Proceedings of the Congress, Das (1930), Das (1932). There are 11 Indian genera of the family Gobiidæ which include 89 species. The genus Pseudapocryptes has been reported from the coasts of India, Burma, the Andaman Islands, and the Malay archipelago. The specimens of pseudapocryptes lanceolatus studied were obtained from the estuary of the Ganges, Chiefly from Port Canning and Diamond Harbour, not far from Calcutta. The fish is often brought to the Calcutta market and is especially abundant during the months of October and November.

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Death and the Discourse of the Body

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/agpy-clh6-mtnt-emlq ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 321-330

Author(s):

Suhita Chopra Chatterjee

Keyword(s):

Western Culture ◽

The Body ◽

Philosophical Tradition ◽

Human Dimension ◽

Indian Science ◽

Different Cultures

A meaningful discourse on death needs to take into account the various ways in which the body is “constructed” in different cultures. Biomedicine, which is rooted in western culture, places a great deal of importance on the body and this creates an anxiety over death. In contrast, the Indian science of medicine draws heavily from an ancient philosophical tradition in which metaphysical ideas about the soul have contributed to the relative insignificance of the body. Both disease and death have been understood in meta-body terms and there is a cultural embrace of death rather than its denial. The article concludes by suggesting the need to move away from sheer biological essentialism in understanding the human dimension of death in different cultures.

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American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): Building a Successful Model for Diversity and Inclusion

ACS Symposium Series - Careers, Entrepreneurship, and Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Chemistry Enterprise ◽

10.1021/bk-2014-1169.ch023 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 255-264

Author(s):

Mary Jo Ondrechen

Keyword(s):

American Indian ◽

Science And Engineering ◽

Indian Science ◽

Successful Model ◽

Diversity And Inclusion ◽

Engineering Society

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Indian Science Minister: We're Not Worthy

AAAS Articles DO Group ◽

10.1126/article.41747 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Indian Science ◽

Science Minister

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Conclusion: Science, fiction and the end of non-alignment

Final Frontiers ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620283.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 145-170

Author(s):

Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee

Keyword(s):

Science Fiction ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

Global Culture ◽

Indian Science

The concluding chapter looks at the legacy of ‘Nehruvian’ techno-science and non-alignment after the death of Nehru, as well as at the interrogation and mobilization of this legacy in Indian science fiction. It briefly discusses the writings of figures such as Adrish Bardhan, J.V. Narlikar and Vandana Singh to show that modern and contemporary Indian science fiction remain a productive site for critical assessment of assumptions about techno-science, ‘development’ and global culture.

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