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		<title>Traditional Sanskrit Education in North India (1600-1800): Curriculum, Teachers and Methods of Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali 140306, Punjab, India
rkochhar2000@yahoo.com
Lecture delivered at London School of Economics ( Department of Economic History, URKEW),
11 November 2011
Most of the sacred literature in Sanskrit was composed much  before any script was introduced into India. Even when Sanskrit started being written down, the writing material was, apart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2011/11/traditional-sanskrit-education-in-north-india-1600-1800-curriculum-teachers-and-methods-of-learning/</link>
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		<title>Indian science policy in the globalization era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar
(Lecture delivered at Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management  Bangalore, 29 August 2007)
The term science policy does not command immediate recognition the way  foreign policy and economic policy do. This is because the  public perception of science in India  has been fashioned by the  Nehruvian era of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2011/09/indian-science-policy-in-the-globalization-era/</link>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Comedy Circus on Indian television: A comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The extent to which the new social class of India has got decoupled from India was brought home strikingly a few days ago in the popular Indian TV show called Comedy Circus produced by Sony TV, and judged by Archana Puran Singh and Tusshar Kapoor ( I do not know whether this is the latest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2011/09/sonys-comedy-circus-on-indian-television-a-comment/</link>
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		<title>Scriptures, science and mythology: An ancient Indian astronomical interplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lecture delivered at Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna, 1 July 2010
Rajesh Kochhar
CSIR Emeritus Scientist
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
rkochhar2000@yahoo.com
Human beings are born astronomers. Ever since they learnt to walk upright they have looked at the sky and wondered. The sky has remained the same but its meaning has been changing. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2011/07/scriptures-science-and-mythology-an-ancient-indian-astronomical-interplay/</link>
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		<title>William Petrie (d.1816), Madras Civil Servant 1765-1812 and Governor,Penang 1812-1816</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar
William Petrie (d.1816) was an influential Madras Civil Servant  of the English East India Company who remained in India from 1765 till 1812 with some breaks, and  later (1812-1816) held the office of Governor of Prince of Wales Island, that is Penang. Though not an astronomer himself, he set up a private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2011/04/william-petrie-d1816madras-civil-servant-1765-1812-and-governorpenang-1812-1816/</link>
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		<title>Black Fellow’s Ship from Bombay for the British in Baltimore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A rare copy of the first edition of the lyrics and music of what became the US National Anthem has recently been auctioned for a record price of 500,000 dollars. As is well known the draft lyric was written by Francis Scott Key (1780-1843) on the night of 13-14 September 1814 while he was detained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2010/12/black-fellow%e2%80%99s-ship-from-bombay-for-the-british-in-baltimore/</link>
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		<title>Globalization and the de-nationalization of Indian middle class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar
CSIR Emeritus Scientist
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Sector 26, Chandigarh 160019, India
rkochhar2000@yahoo.com

Paper presented at the 39th annual conference of Mid-Atlantic Region  Association of Asian studies(MAR/AAS) Pennsylvania State  University, State   College, Pa, 22 October 2010

 
 


 
 
 
The most remarkable feature of the Indian middle class (IMC) today is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2010/11/globalization-and-the-de-nationalization-of-indian-middle-class/</link>
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		<title>Quran-burning: A dangerous and mad move</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Kochhar
In the 16th century, the Portuguese were well entrenched on India&#8217;s west coast and controlled the Arabian Sea. Combining commercial greed and religious fervor, they looted the returning Hadj ships which carried out trade as well. In one such raid, the Portuguese tied the Quran to a dog&#8217;s tail.The Mughal Emperor Akbar was under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2010/09/quran-burning-a-dangerous-and-mad-move/</link>
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		<title>Rahu and Ketu  in mythological and “astronomological” contexts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian Journal of History of Science, Vol, 45, no.2, June 2010, pp. 287-297 

Rajesh Kochhar
Abstract
Rahu and Katu were deployed as planetary deities in the sixth century CE immediately after the mathematical theory of eclipses was propounded by Aryabhata. Their literary credentials however go back to early Vedic times. Here our aim is to examine, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2010/08/rahu-and-ketu-in-mythological-and-%e2%80%9castronomological%e2%80%9d-contexts/</link>
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		<title>Falling literary standards in radio and television in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune Chandigar 4 July 2010
Letter to Editor


The article on All India Radio makes interesting reading (Perspective, June 27). There is a need to arrest a recent negative trend, especially in Hindi and Punjabi programmes. A significant fraction of radio audience does not know English. And yet, the announcers (or radio jockeys) have become so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajeshkochhar.com/2010/07/125/</link>
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