An Alig's Armchair

The express tendency in debate is to score a point over others. Discussion may lead to analysis paralysis . Consultation ( mashwirah ) i...

Here is a sample: This week (March 11-18) Mosque in Coquitlam Canada spray painted: "Sandniggas" California : Two elderly sikh...

Reviewing Aligarh Movement is in vogue. Behzad Taimur is happy to write, we mean tweet ,  that he has written a scathing critique of the Ali...

Indian Science Congress is the annual juggernaut of Indian science. These people are very nice in that they maintain the list of their Sect...

On October 20, 1920, the Aligarh University was granted its official Charter. In spite of several obstacles, the Imam continued his ceasele...

In Physics the name of Prof.Wali Mohammad the former head of the Physics Department in the AMU, and also the head at Lucknow University in f...

One might wonder as to what is the Aligarian connection in the earlier post titled Curing Eye Melanoma . Nothing directly. Indirectly a lot....

The latest instruments of basic science might have applications for rather regular requirements. Like medical treatment. This post is a plac...

Dr K. Rangdhama Rao (1898-1972) was a professor of spectroscopy from Andhra Pradesh. He is not directly related to Aligarh but somebody edi...

Dear Student (Name), Received your new research paper. To tell you the truth I can not understand much of it. There comes a time in the life...

Top 10 websites on the internet are (1)Google (2)Facebook (3)YouTube (4)Yahoo! (5)Blogger (6)Windows Live (7)Baidu.com (Chinese Langu...

(1) Wikipedia page on Chernobyl (2) UK Telegraph Photo Tour of Chernobyl and Pripyat (3) Three Mile Island

First you would like to have the news from the news reporters. Or may be summary because it has been going on for few days now. So here is ...

Three retired businessmen were fishing on a jetty on a bright sunshine filled day. One of them asked the man nearby him, "So what is ...

Dr R.C.Budhani, Director, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi speaking as the Chief Guest at the National Conference on Recent Advances ...

A personal experience from Japan : I was actually on the way to IPMU when the earthquake struck. Thanks to the early warning system, the t...

 A serious physicist insisted that you do not need God to explain disasters. Mullahs ridiculed the notion that science could provide an exp...

Science periodical Current Science, from Bangalore, is India's answer to the British journal Nature . Its first volume came out in 1932...

Some time back we had presented some excerpts from the preface of the upcoming third edition of the book Elements of Solid State Physics by...