[HN Gopher] Life and work of the great Visionary, Homi J. Bhabha
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Life and work of the great Visionary, Homi J. Bhabha
Author : happy-go-lucky
Score : 54 points
Date : 2023-01-24 08:42 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| vjust wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha#Death
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| He rubbed shoulders with giants of Theoretical Physics, and was
| on the verge of taking India into the nuclear club, in 1966.
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| Its speculated (including an ex-CIA anecdote) that he was
| assasinated. USA couldn't handle the fact of India growing into a
| Nuclear and Space power. Another Indian scientist Sarabhai also
| died under suspicious circumstances. But Bhabha's seemed
| especially a strategic concern for US policy in those days.
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| USA and India were 'almost enemies' in those decades, a period
| when India refused to be bullied by either side.
| crossroadsguy wrote:
| In recent years as well Indian nuclear scientists have been
| departing under mysterious circumstances and the rumour is
| Pak/China/Rus were not facilitating those departures.
|
| "Business deaths" maybe? Biggest economy doesn't like
| competition.
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| https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/11-indian-nuclear-scientists...
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| https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/investigation/7559-atomic...
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| https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2021/01/06/from-the-archiv...
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| https://asiatimes.com/2019/07/indias-vanishing-nuclear-scien...
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| https://www.unrevealedfiles.com/the-strange-disappearance-of...
| -- this one just turned up in Google. Seems like a blog, not a
| news org.
| raincom wrote:
| Love to hear more on the assassination or poisoning aspects of
| Bhabha and sarabhai. British is not going to declassify stuff
| about Ambedkar. It could be the same about bhabha.
| FlyingSnake wrote:
| Dr. Bhabha belonged to a special generation of Indian scientists
| like C.V. Raman, Raja Ramanna etc who were well respected by
| their peers in East and West.
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| The TV series Rocket Boys is a fictionalised account of Dr.
| Bhabha (Father of Indian atomic program) and Dr. Sarabhai (Father
| of Indian space program).
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| 1: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13868972/
| skanga wrote:
| Terrific profile. There are several institutions in India named
| after him such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bhabha
| Hospital, etc.
| Gimpei wrote:
| For a second, I thought this was about Homi K. Bhabha, notorious
| among other things for this gem of a sentence:
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| "If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses
| of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification,
| pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities,
| and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to
| 'normalise' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting
| that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory
| modality."
| axiom92 wrote:
| Wow, that's a great negative sample for any reading class--
| uselessly abstruse and verbose.
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| Took me multiple turns even with ChatGPT to simplify it:
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| Using desire for control may seem manageable at first, but it
| leads to negative consequences and people try to justify it
| using false reasoning and fake authority to make it seem
| acceptable, even though it goes against rational thinking.
| mokenator wrote:
| It reminds me of something Postmodernism Generator would
| generate.
|
| https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Thanks so much for sharing that!
|
| I had been unaware of Mr. Bhabha, before this.
|
| He was pretty awesome dude.
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