Today, VarahaMihira Science Forum had organised a talk at Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai titled “A brief history of gravity”, delivered by Dr Satish Kumar Saravanan, Riemann Fellow of Riemann Center for Geometry and Physics. Dr Satish started with the well-known (fiction?) story of a falling apple into the lap of Newton, who went on to discover the force of Gravity. Followed this was the fictitious(?) story of Galileo dropping two balls of varying mass and…
Dr Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat is known for her scholarly works on Ancient India, including her recent book “Political Violence in…
I am happy to have been invited for being one of the juries for the “sprint” sessions of Tamil Nadu Innovation Grand Challenge (TNIGC), an…
IIT Madras Incubation Cell along with TiE Chennai had organised a one-day exhibition today – Chennai Demo Day, a marketplace for businesses. The venue was the spacious IIT Madras Research Park, Taramani. For the last few years, IIT Madras has been successfully incubating startups in the areas of rural, social and technology. Today, the public and investor community got a chance to see many of these companies with their solutions for clean energy, healthcare, education, mobility…
I attended The Hindu Lit for Life 2018 last year, which was interesting. This year too I am attending, not in full so my post…
