Climate Change IPCC calls for immediate action rather than rhetorical references to a “climate crisis”Tejal KanitkarT. JayaramanThe IPCC report is an important wake-up call to the world to not get taken in by the claim that net-zero declarations of developed countries represent
Tribute Einstein's CenturyT. JAYARAMANIn the World Year of Physics 2005, a hundred years after Albert Einstein initiated a revolutionary turn away from classical physics with four seminal
Circular reasoningT. JAYARAMANMeera Nandas writing occupies a distinctive intellectual niche in the academic and media discourse on the nature and practice of secularism in India.
Carbon alertT. JAYARAMANSECURING substantial progress at the earliest in the global climate negotiations is essential, particularly for developing nations as the consequences
The private EinsteinT. JAYARAMANALBERT EINSTEIN once wrote to an old friend of his ETH days: "I am so far all right in that I have victoriously survived the Nazi time and two wives"
Early influencesT. JAYARAMANALBERT EINSTEIN, the first child of Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch, was born at Ulm, in Germany, on March 14, 1879. According to most biographers,
Kalam's world-view, a critiqueT. JAYARAMANAbdul Kalam's viewpoint on nuclear and strategic issues is a technocratic and hawkish one that is more in tune with, and provides support to, the jing
Nuclear crisis in South AsiaT. JAYARAMANThe current crisis in India-Pakistan relations is a direct consequence of the pursuit of nuclear weaponisation by India, followed closely by Pakistan.
A judicial blowT. JAYARAMANThe Andhra Pradesh High Court's dismissal of a writ petition against the UGC's move to introduce the study of astrology in the universities calls atte
Vedic astrology and all thatT. JAYARAMANAstrology has no academic standing of any worth; there is no evidence that it has any empirical basis. The campaign to introduce it as a subject in un
Looking for the next breakthroughT. JAYARAMANThe Strings 2001 conference held in Mumbai was dominated by the themes and directions that had been initiated over the last four or five years, consid
The coup and the Indian nuclear theologyT. JAYARAMANWho controlled the nuclear button in Pakistan as the coup was under way? An assessment of the implications of the coup vis-a-vis nuclear weaponisation
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
