(Following obituary was sent to IITB community by director of IIT Bombay. This is written by his colleagues) Prof. R. E. Bedford 1926 – 2012Prof. R. E. Bedford, Professor Emeritus at IIT Bombay, passed away in Chennai on 25th June 2012, aged 86. He was a faculty member at IIT Bombay from 1958 to 1986, …
Today I found a rather peculiar email in my inbox. It was sent to IITB general mailing list, meant for notification about events on the campus. This email was written for anyone ‘who is concerned with IIT Bombay future’. Thus I read it. The sender is a member of student body. He was disappointed with …
For last few decades, many scholars of Indian history have started to argue, sometimes with official patronage, that Indus civilization was not only Aryan, but also Vedic or even post-Vedic. To make their view credible they tried to prove, among other things, that the ‘Rigveda‘ was composed around 3500 BC, a date contemporaneous to with …
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