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New Delhi: India’s leading automobile makers Sonalika Group has developed world’s cleanest three wheeler with improved I .C engine in technical collaborations with Banaras Hindu University that will run on hydrogen and leave behind nothing than a trail of water vapours disclosed Sonalika group managing director Deepak Mittal in opening day of world hydrogen technology convention organised at India habitat centre in New Delhi today. He said that the Sonalika Group and ministry of renewable energy govt of
While giving the technical details of the vehicle, Mr Deepak Mittal told that It’s powered by hydrogen stored in the trunk, a since it is hydrogen the only thing coming out of the tailpipe is clean water and heat. On the road it gets the equivalent of 45 miles to the gallon. He called his company’s new vehicle the future in transportation and added that while bio fuels are today, hydrogen is tomorrow.
He told that his company will develop affordable and efficient hydrogen-powered vehicles in all other categories in near future and said that it would be completely hydrogen –driven fields.
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TNN 31 August 2009, 08:29pm IST
Prime Minister of India to induce industries for commercialisation of hydrogen devices like two, three-wheelers and cookers developed at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Hydrogen Energy Centre and at other places in the country. He said he would also recommend that
Prof Veziroglu was in the city to attend a two-day symposium on 'Hydrogen Energy and Climate Change' at the Hydrogen Energy Centre of BHU on Sunday. In his inaugural lecture on 'Hydrogen Energy System: Ultimate Solution to Climate Change', he said hydrogen energy research and development efforts at several universities and institutes of
He further stated it was an opportune time for the Government of India to support mission mode research projects at universities and institutes and at the same time induce industries by providing tax rebates and subsides to come forward and manufacture the hydrogen energy devices already developed by Indian universities and institutes. He said produced from water, hydrogen burnt back to water after use in vehicles or turbine. Thus, it was most climate friendly and formed the ultimate solution to climate change. Prof Veziroglu also took a ride on the campus on hydrogen-fuelled three-wheeler developed by BHU centre.
Delivering his presidential speech, BHU vice-chancellor Prof DP Singh said global warming and climate changes were no longer a matter of conjecture. "They are real and are causing a loss of about 22 per cent of World GDP," he said.
Convener Prof ON Srivastava, also the principal investigator and coordinator of Hydrogen Energy Centre, said climate change effects would produce detrimental efforts like droughts, flooding, change in weather pattern, loss of agriculture, first in warm countries like
Prof Madhulika Agarwal of botany department also spoke on various aspects of climate change. The function was also addressed by Prof Sasikala of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Prof Laxminarasu of
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According to the university spokesperson, rector, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Prof BD Singh would be one of the five persons taking part in the inward mission. The other members are Dr RG Pardeshi, principal AF Fergusson College, Pune, Biju Abraham Narayamparambil of Rajagir School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, MV Satyanarayan, director, PES Institute of Technology, Banglore, and Rajib Chanda, director, NSHM, Kolkata. They would visit various institutions in the
The British Council is the
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TNN 11 September 2009, 04:59am IST
on women and film appreciation workshop organised by the Centre for Women Studies and Development (CWSD),
Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in collaboration with the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and National Film Archive of India (NFAI), Pune, began on Thursday.
Welcoming the guests and participants, the BHU registrar Prof K P Upadhyaya said, "the film festival would encourage youths from eastern UP to take up film as a career." The function was also addressed by film personalities like Mita Vashistha and Chitra Palekar. The inaugural session was followed by the screening of a film of FTII student. Later, a seminar on changing images of women in Indian cinema was held.
According to the CWSD coordinator, Prof Shubha Rao, "famous women centric films like
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(The information is provided by Ms. Padmini Ravindranath, BHU Alumni Cell. Email: padmini_1109@hotmail.com).
The 4th International BHU Alumni Meet is planned on Dec. 25-27, 2009 on BHU campus.
The meet will be called 4th International BHU Alumni Meet (IBAM 2009). This Meet will be held in association with the Mahamana Malaviya Mission.
The inauguration of the meet will be on the afternoon of 25th after the regular Malaviya Jayanti celebrations. December 25th not only happens to be Malaviya Jayanti but is also being celebrated as Sustainability Day. This time the third day i.e.27th is reserved for the visit to faculties by our alumni.
We hope our alumni will join us by the morning of 25th as they will be a part of the Malaviya Jayanti celebrations which will be held in the forenoon. The Faculty Exhibition to be held in the grounds of Swantrata Bhavan will also be inaugurated in the pre-lunch session the same day.
Brochure:
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DEADLINES
Registration for the Meet : December 15, 2009
Submission of abstract : October 30, 2009
Submission of full paper : December 10, 2009
For registration and payment details for IBAM 2009 meet, please visit BHU Alumni Cell website at: www.bhu.ac.in (at Alumni Cell).
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a) No IIT in Karnataka for now-Mrs. D. Purandeshwari
b) HRD allows IITs to take non-PhDs as lecturers
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D Suresh Kumar, TNN 25 August 2009, 04:00am IST
CHENNAI: Marks scored in the Plus Two board examinations are likely to become a key determining factor in addition to performance in the Joint
Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by 2011.
In a couple of months, a pan-IIT committee, formed by the Union human resource development ministry to suggest reforms to JEE, is expected to submit its report recommending ways to factor in the marks scored by students in higher secondary examinations while preparing the IIT merit list. A meeting of all IIT directors and JEE representatives in Chennai over the weekend discussed the proposed changes.
``We hope to devise a methodology to compute a normalised Plus Two cut-off eligibility score for each educational board (CBSE, ICSE, and State Boards). If it's approved, then only students who have scored this cut-off mark would become eligible to appear for JEE,'' IIT Madras deputy director V G Idichandy, who is heading the committee, said on Monday. The present eligibility norm of an aggregate score of 60% in Plus Two determined by the IIT standing council, as opposed to 85% recommended by a JEE review committee four years ago, is considered too poor a benchmark.
The move comes in the backdrop of widespread concern among top academicians over the current IIT admission system which is entirely dependent on JEE scores and ignores the board examination results.
The inherent weakness of such a system is that IITs have been able to largely attract only students ``conditioned for JEE'' by high profile coaching centres in
``We are collecting data on Plus Two results of the past four to five years from different boards in all states to base our recommendation on. Much will depend on how we compute an acceptable method to normalise the marks scored in different boards. You have nearly 40 boards of education in
However, the even more difficult part is to convince authorities of all the boards to declare Plus Two results within a specified time frame every academic year.
``This will be crucial for us as we have to base JEE on Plus Two results. This is where a common school board, at least at the level of higher secondary education, which has been proposed by HRD minister Kapil Sibal, will help in determining any all-India merit list,'' he said.
Idichandy acknowledged JEE can't be abolished ``but we want to give as much importance as possible to the performance of students at the school level'' in IIT admissions.
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Hemali Chhapia, TNN 29 August 2009, 03:15am IST
MUMBAI: If you've made it to an Indian Institute of Technology, you no longer need to travel to the campus to book your seat. The tech schools have decided to take the counselling process online, thus allowing students to submit their preferences a mix of streams and IITs from home.
Currently, students from across the country travel to the closest IIT after they make their mark in the Joint Entrance Exam. "Now, all general category students will be allowed to submit their preferences online. However, all other candidates will have to travel to the nearest IIT campus for the same as they have to submit their certificates to us,'' said IIT-Guwahati director Gautam Barua.
The decision to conduct the counselling online was taken when the directors recently met in Chennai to discuss plans for the upcoming JEE in April 2010. In another key decision, the IIT directors agreed to centrally conduct two or more rounds of seat allocation, to ensure that seats don't go abegging.
While this year, the IITs for the first time conducted a second round of seat allotments, it was held at the institute level. Students who took admission were offered internal betterment before the second allotment had taken place. So, if a student with a ranking of 1,104 in JEE-2009 did not take the seat allotted to him in IIT-B, another candidate with a lower ranking got his place (if he had opted for that subject and IIT-B in his preference form).
Also, if a candidate signed up at IIT-Delhi in the first round, s/he were not allowed to move to say IIT-Madras or IIT-Bombay even if a slot opened there and these institutes were listed in his/her choices. "Now, we want to remove that barrier. A student will be allowed to move out of one IIT and join another, if he prefers to do so in the later rounds of seat allotment,'' added Barua. In another relief to students, the IITs have decided to put out the answer key of the entrance exam, soon after the exam ends.
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September 3rd, 2009 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
The process of allotting students’ seats is popularly known as counselling in engineering colleges. Currently IITs take students through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and others through an All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).
“The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry is keen on such a proposal. There was some informal discussion as well,” an IIT director told IANS Thursday, while requesting anonymity.
Authorities said the effort will solve the problem of a number of seats going vacant after the selection procedure is over. Many students seek admission to more than one institute as they sit through separate counselling in quest of the best institute.
The director said that this does not mean that JEE and AIEEE will merge. “It’s all about keeping the counselling a single affair to reduce seats going vacant.”
On Wednesday, all IIT directors had a meeting with HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, who had assured them that their demand for a better pay packet will get due attention.
“We are not going to divulge any details right now. But for sure, we are happy,” the director added.
IITs across
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A detailed presentation by the ministry -- showing that IIT faculty after revision got more than UGC scale and even DRDO scientists -- seems to have done the trick. The few unresolved issues, Sibal promised, would be immediately looked into.
Though a final decision has not been taken, there is a possibility that common counselling for AIEEE and JEE could be held for successful candidates of both entrance tests from 2010. However, a decision on merging IIT-JEE and AIEEE to become a common entrance test will be taken later.
The meeting, a sequel to Sibal's earlier meeting with IIT directors on June 30, discussed progress of new IITs. It also saw the minister assuring the directors that a special cell would be set up in the ministry to facilitate entry of foreign faculty in IITs. The meeting also discussed the need to create, subject to ministry's approval, an international pool of faculty for IITs. The matter will be discussed in a separate meeting of IIT directors.
To deal with faculty shortage, IIT directors have been told to double PhD intake and prepare a list of students who were awarded PhD degrees this year. The list may be exchanged with directors of other IITs who can consider them for appointment as faculty.
Told about the Bologna Accord, Sibal said
IIT directors were told about the white paper promised by them on research and development in IITs including details of publications in high impact journals, patents, and other educational details.
The ministry told IIT directors about the Supreme Court order that asked IITs and other educational institutions to help SC/ST students at each stage. IIT Delhi has already been asked to reconsider its decision of expelling some students from this section on account of their poor academic performance.
As for new IITs, the meeting was told that PhD courses were started in IITs at
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http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/iits-strategise-for-more-phd-scholars/369282/
Pradipta Mukherjee / Kolkata September 7, 2009, 0:35 IST
Efforts include joint M. Tech and PhD degrees and streamlining policies so that thesis papers are cleared within two months
With research becoming a clear focus area at all Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and with the 20-30 per cent growth in sponsored research, the premier technology institutes are now targeting a 10-30 per cent increase in PhD scholars.
Globally,
“We want at least 30 per cent of our students to be research scholars, double of what it is right now. We are making several enticements for that, like joint MTech and PhD degrees and streamlining policies so that thesis papers are cleared within two months instead of one year which is usually the norm,” said Damodar Acharya, director of IIT-KGP.
The institute has also introduced joint degree programmes with other reputed universities in
The institute from its own fund supports written airfare up to two visits of the students to the partnering university. The local expenses of the student are taken care of by the partnering university.
At IIT-Bombay, 140 PhDs graduated in 2007, 200 in 2008 and around 175 in 2009. "We are incubating our PhD students using their intellectual properties. This should encourage students and make them feel more secure about their research findings," said Rangan Banerjee, dean of research and development at IIT Bombay.
At IIT Madras, from 2006 to 2009 there has been a 50 per cent increase in PhD intake. Currently the institute has around 1100 PhD scholars, informed Job Kurian, dean of sponsored research at IIT Madras. IIT Madras aims to have a 1:1 ratio between research scholars and undergraduates, from 1:5 ratio currently, said Kurian.
IIT-Delhi has seen a 23 per cent increase in the number of PhD degrees given out this year. A total number of 181 PhD degrees was awarded as compared to 147 last year. "This is a phenomenal achievement and is contrary to belief that we are very poor on research output," said M Balakrishnan, dean of post-graduate studies at IIT-Delhi.
IIT Bhubaneswar, one of the newest IITs in
Student researchers get a grant of Rs 15,000 per month. International exposure for faculty and student researchers and presenting their research papers at international conferences is another priority area for IIT Bhubaneswar.
IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-G), another new IIT, has also started focusing on establishing the institute as a preferred destination for research students by initiating quality research activities on the campus.
The institute, which was established in 2008, has just received its second batch of undergraduate students, but is already working on lines of creating a centre for research.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal had recently said the country's premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) must focus on quality research and act as a catalyst to boost technical education in
"This is not only necessary for the economic growth of the country but also for the IITs to make the transition as creator of knowledge. Without a large base of well educated undergraduates in the country it is difficult to imagine any significant growth in research output from these institutions," Sibal said.
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New Delhi, Sept 11 (PTI) Faced with stiff opposition from the faculty of IITs, the government is considering doing away with the lecturer posts in the elite institutes.
If the government's decision is implemented, there may be three-tier system in the faculty of IITs -- professor, associate professors and assistant professors.
The IIT Faculty Federation has been demanding abolition of lecturer posts. If such posts are abolished, the IITs may recruit freshers on contract at the level of assistant professor, HRD Ministry sources said.
However, the contractual appointment may depend on the requirement of specific department, not uniform to all departments, the sources said.
The federation members had a meeting with HRD Minister Kapil Sibal this week where they also demanded starting a performance-based incentive scheme.
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http://www.samaylive.com/news/iit-jee-2010-forms-likely-to-be-available-in-november/656189.html
Published by: Sudhir Kumar
Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 at 15:45 IST
Sources said that after admission notification, the forms will be made available at the branches of banks depending on the zone.
Details about them will also be there with the release of admission notification. Students preparing for the IIT JEE may request for the forms by sending a demand draft along with a request for them.
Application for the JEE can also be filled online through IIT website. For it the candidate will have to fill the required details in the online form and will need to send the printed form along with Demand Draft and other documents to specified IIT, the source added.
Sources said that the forms will most probably be from the third week of November.
The last date for receipt of request for application form will be third week of December while the last date of receipt of completed application form will be the last week of December this year.
Source pointed out that the JEE will be held in second week of April, 2010 and the results will be declared at the end of May.
Candidates who have passed the class 12th or equivalent with at least 60 per cent marks in aggregate can apply for the IIT JEE. There is five per cent relaxation for SC/ ST candidates.
Apart from that candidates must not exceed 25 years as on October 1, 2009, while candidates belonging to SC/STs should not be more than 30 years.
There is another restriction that only those candidates who have passed 12th in 2009 or are appearing in 2010 can took IIT JEE.
After applying for the IIT JEE, candidate will have to go through the test. The test includes two papers of 3 hours duration each. Objective questions from Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics will be there in the papers. Avoid giving incorrect answers as there will negative marking for them.
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TNN 11 September 2009, 04:57am IST
VARANASI: Prof V K Srivastava, department of mechanical engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, has received a grant for the bilateral international research project.
(Prof. V. K. Srivastava)
According to Srivastava, "the research project is supported by DAAD, Germany and Department of Science and Technology, India." He would collaborate with Prof Ulrich Gabbert, Institute of Mechanics, Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, to exchange research on design and analysis of light weight piezoelectric fibre composites for the application of aerospace organisation.
NOMINATED: Two professors from Varanasi, Prof Anand Mohan of electronic department of IT-BHU and Prof C Lal, former head and dean of the Faculty of Management Studies, BHU, have been nominated as the members of the University Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for a period of three years.
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* Department of Mechanical Engineering, IT-BHU
http://www.itbhu.ac.in/mec/index.html
* Profile of Prof. V. K. Srivastava
http://www.itbhu.ac.in/mec/index.php/people/faculty/76.html
* Department of Electronics Engineering, IT-BHU
*Profile of Prof. Anand Mohan
http://www.itbhu.ac.in/ece/index.php/people/faculty-members.html
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090902/jsp/nation/story_11440240.jsp
CHARU
The government has agreed to hike the starting salary of assistant professors by almost 25 per cent from that stipulated in a new pay regime it had notified earlier this month, top officials revealed.
The decision was firmed up today, on the eve of a meeting between human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and IIT directors to resolve the crisis.
Faculty at the IITs and the IIMs are protesting revised pay scales that snip salaries recommended by a central pay panel under former Indian Institute of Science director Goverdhan Mehta.
The pay regime notified earlier this month also ignores a slew of additional incentives suggested by the Mehta panel to counter the lure of better salaries offered by industry and foreign universities.
Poor salaries for assistant professors, the institutes argued, were at the root of the dispute.
Under the pay scales notified earlier this month, assistant professors were placed at a starting monthly salary of Rs 30,000, in a range referred to as pay band 3.
The HRD ministry has decided that salaries for assistant professors will now start at Rs 37,400 a month, in a higher pay range — called pay band 4.
The academic grade pay — a rank-based increment — for assistant professors will remain at Rs 8,000 a month, as notified earlier this month.
The ministry has not yet accepted demands from the IITs for additional incentives — financial compensation for the years spent in study and research instead of working, or a performance-related incentive scheme.
The salaries notified earlier this month — and first reported by The Telegraph on August 19 — represented the first hike in pay scales for the IIT and IIM faculties since 1999.
On learning about the notification, faculties across the IITs and IIMs protested against the new pay regime, wearing black bands. Teachers at different IITs took turns at boycotting classes.
The IITs last week submitted a memorandum of demands to the HRD ministry, threatening a mass hunger strike on September 5 — Teacher’s Day — if their demands were not accepted.
The IIMs have also formulated a similar charter of demands, though they have not specified any protest action they are planning.
Under current pay scales for teachers at
Teachers at the IITs and the IIMs have traditionally been paid higher than their counterparts at universities because of the higher demand they command in the corporate market.
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-- Chit DUKHIRA
Bhojpuri was successively preceded as a language by Apabhransh, Maghadi, Pali and Sanskrit. Very importantly, it was being used before Hindi. The vocabulary of Hindi has been much influenced by it. Still popular, Bhojpuri still constitutes a distinct culture. It prevails in North India, especially in chunks of undivided UP and Bihar from where most of the Indian migrants, Hindus and Muslims, went out across the world, including
The Bhopuri belt stretches from the
Bhojpuri is spoken by more people in UP than even in
Avadhi and Magadhi are sister dialects of Bhojpuri. In
Today, with the migration of inhabitants of the huge Bhojpuri belt, Bhojpuri is widely spoken not only in such large neighbouring cities as
Political Ballia
The last remains of Rasra, the most ancient
A brave patriot of Ballia, Mangal Pandey (1827-1857), after initially serving loyally in the British army in
On 22 April 1858, the gallant Kunwar Singh (1782-1858), king of the adjoining Jagdishpur, forming part of Shahabad District in
Chittu Pandey (1865-1946) overthrew British rule in Ballia after a relentless battle in 1942 during the Quit India Movement. He managed the city during a week, occupying the seat of the then British jiladhish (District Magistrate). This valorous patriotic act, the first in
Jayprakash Narayan (1902-1979), the famous veteran freedom fighter who had also worked with Acharya Vinobha Bhave in his Bhoodan movement, was also born in Ballia at Sitabdiyara where his statue now stands. He returned to active politics in 1974 after being disillusioned with the direction that politics had taken in the country. In 1977, he was instrumental in bringing down Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who had imposed a state of emergency on the nation, and making Morarji Desai Prime Minister.
Chandra Shekhar (1927-2007) became Ballia’s MP in 1962, and, except for a short period in the eighties, was elected repeatedly from there with a large majority each time until his death. He was the only Bhojpuri Indian Prime Minister (1990-1991). This capable Prime Minister preferred to resign, since his ruling ally then (Indian National Congress) had accused him of spying on Rajiv Gandhi’s activities, thus refusing to yield to political lordliness. For his effective and disciplined long career in the Lok Sabha, Chandra Shekhar was conferred
Ballia: Home to philosophy and astrology
Ancient Ballia has produced geniuses in religious, astrological, literary and other fields. Maharishi Parasara Muni is famous for his immortal works, Bhrihad Parasara-Horasastra (Astrology) and Parasara Smriti (Principles of Hindu Religion). These two references, appearing thousands of years before Christ and after the Mahabharata, are extant in Sanskrit. Parasara Muni’s ashrama, known as Parasia named after the place, is still found near the Ganges in
In contemporary history too, a number of natives of Ballia have shone in astrology. Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (1907-1979) was specialised in ganit shastra (numeric astrology), besides being a novelist, essayist, linguist and literary critic. His most famous novels are “Banabhat Ki Atma Katha” and “Ahoka Ke Phool.” A master of Sanskrit, religion, culture and tradition, he also had knowledge of ancient
Acharya Parushram Chaturvedi (1884-1979), a postgraduate in Psychology and a lawyer, devoted himself to literary activities. A specialist in Hindi bhakti (devotional) literature, he abandoned his legal practice he had started in
Bhojpuri Indians Shining in
A few natives of Ballia, during their stay in
Pandit Lakshmi Narayan Chaturvedi (1879-1948), Ramtohul Chowbey’s eldest son, stayed for about 23 years in
According to Dr Moonishwurlall Chintamunnee, Mauritian writer-poet and previously Head of the Oriental Language Department at MGI, Chaturvedi was the first Hindi author whose works were published on
Acharya Ramjanam, born and bred in Ballia where his ancestral family still lives, who had been Professor of Philosophy at the Banaras Hindu University, served Mauritius as an authoritative astrologist and guru for 20 years (1989-2008). Based at Hari Har Kchetra Mandir, Quatre Bornes, he was the head priest of the Sanatan Dharma Mandir Parishad before becoming the country’s most revered Sanatanist Acharya of the time, training priests and giving advice on religion to orthodox institutions.
The author’s paternal grandparents hailed from
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September 9, 2009
RANA SIDDIQUI ZAMAN
DETAILED: A sketch of
James Prinsep’s “
On November 26, 1820, James Prinsep came to
“Benares Illustrated” by O.P Kejariwal, brought out by Pilgrim Publishing House and launched by former President of India A.P.J Abdul Kalam at Teen Murti House this week, documents Prinsep’s contribution to
Said Kalam, “Prinsep showed that if a person is inspired, no one can stop him to perform. When I was going through the book, I was thinking what inspired Prinsep, and was equally disgusted to think where is ‘our’ James Prinsep? Throughout his writings, he doesn’t get time to complain about the
Kejariwal says on the genesis of this book, “Before Prinsep died of a disease called ‘softening of the brain’ at the age of 40, he went back to Britain, his homeland, and made a huge collection on Indian, and especially Benaras-related writings and articles. He willed it to his family. Several years ago, one Fred Pin called me up in
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