Moonshot: Why India must take the lead in the final frontier

India’s second unmanned mission to the Moon lifted off on July 22 on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s gigantic GSLV Mark III rocket. With three modules – an orbiter, lander and rover –Chandrayaan 2 More...

John R Searle’s The Mystery of Consciousness: A Summary with some Indian Perspectives

The Mystery of Consciousness by John Searle is available for purchase in Amazon. ‘Consciousness’ was in the ambit of philosophy and not good science earlier. As a mark of changing times, mainstream scientists More...

Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India- II

[contextly_sidebar id=”2isZ1Toi2R3QndxENDSTvCgGqP8TcKit”] Selected Passages From Yoga-Vasistha (YV) The page numbers given at the end of each passage are from the Venkatesananda (1993) translation. YV More...

Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India- I

Introduction Ancient Indian ideas of physics, available to us through a variety of sources, are generally not known in the physics world. Indian astronomer/physicists, starting with a position that sought to unify More...