'For 1,400 years India led the world in science'

'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.''Nobody tried or convicted Aryabhata just because he said Rahu-Ketu is nonsense.''Some Indians take the extreme view......

The mastermind behind India's Star Wars

DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy Reddy is the first Indian to be appointed Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and of the Royal Aeronautical Society.Ajai Shukla reports. Scientists of the......

'Rainfall is one of the hardest things to predict'

'Temperature and wind can be predicted more easily than rainfall.' 'Rainfall, as common experience suggests, is very spotty.''The last bit of physics required that tells us whether it is going to......

'We are more interested in the monsoon than anyone else in the world'

'It affects our economy, it is very important in many ways.''So we have to be the foremost experts in the world on the monsoon.''But the best minds in India have not devoted their time to the study......