Major articles

Important articles published in Breakthrough magazine

• Opposition to new ideas in science

• Giordano Bruno: An everburning flame of commitment to truth and reason

• Rigvedic Saraswati: Myth and Reality

• Scientific Analysis of Qualitative Change

• Nature’s Geometry

• Some questions concerning the UGC course in astrology

• Rivers and Floods (With Special Reference to Floods in West Bengal)

• Malthus’ Population Theory: An Irony in the Annals of Science

• Physical Theory and Mathematical Formalism

• The New Patent Regime: A Blow against Science and Public Health

• The Science & Technology Policy 2003: A critical evaluation, Part 1

• The Science & Technology Policy 2003: A critical evaluation, Part 2

• A Scientific Analysis of the Proposed Interlinking of Rivers in India

• Year 2012: Will the World Really Come to an End?

• Nuclear Power: The Cons in the Debate

• Remembering Madame Curie

• Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray: An epitome of scientific attitude and human values

• Louis Pasteur—the Crusader for Truth

• The Transit of Venus 2012: A Celestial Spectacle

• Gravitational waves: Einstein’s whispers from the cosmos

• What is Scientific Temper?

• Responsibility of Scientists towards Building Scientific Temper in Society

• What science entails, beyond practical science

• Astrology Opposes Science and Rationalism

• The National Education Policy 2016: A Critical Appraisal
• What science entails, beyond practical science
• Indian Knowledge systems: The Central Plank of the New Education Policy

Articles published on the occasion of the international year of physics

• Albert Einstein
• The Philosophical Foundation of Einstein’s Great Scientific Activity
• The Special Theory of Relativity
• The General Theory of Relativity and the World Around Us

Translations from the book Bibartan Juge Juge (Evolution through ages)

• Origin of the solar system
• The origin of life
• The molecules of life
• Darwin and the theory of evolution

Articles published on the occasion of the Darwin year

• Darwin’s theory of evolution, Part 1: Background
• Darwin’s theory of evolution, Part 2(a): Achievement
• Darwin’s theory of evolution, Part 2(b): Human evolution
• Darwin’s theory of evolution, Part 3: Consequences for Philosophy
• Darwin’s theory of evolution, Part 4: Consequences for Sociology

Articles published on the occasion of the International Year of Chemistry

• Evolution of Chemistry: Part I
• Evolution of Chemistry: Part II
• Evolution of Chemistry: Part III

Serial articles on “A Brief History of Science”

• The advent of agriculture
• The upsurge of Greek intellect
• The Dark Age
• The Renaissance
• Development of the scientific method
• The Newtonian Synthesis
• The Heydays of Mechanical Materialism
• The Development of Science in Ancient India
• The Development of the Ideas of Causality and Determinism
• The Revolution in Biology
• Philosophy transcends mechanical materialism and metaphysics
• The rise and fall of positivism
• The Development of Quantum Mechanics
• Genetics becomes a science
• Rebirth of science in India

Serial articles on “Materialist Philosophy in Ancient India”

• Part-1
• Part-2

Serial articles on Nuclear Power

• Nuclear Energy — Facts and Fiction (Part 1)
• Nuclear Energy — Facts and Fiction (Part 2)

The Conundrum of Ancient Indian Civilization

• Part 1 – The Indus Valley Civilization

• Part 2 — The Aryans and the Vedic Civilization

• Part 3 – The Enigma of the River Saraswati