At the Solar Eclipse the skies belong to the people again and that’s why I had to go there, to see how I could make my own connection with the Solar System and how other people did too.
Hinduism contains an ancient science of eclipses that now manifest in rituals: not eating during an eclipse, not […]
Am looking back through books. One page is about the symposium at NIAS ages ago. I had been trying to find the presentation that Shiv Visvanathan gave and I think I’ve found it. It was wonderful, about the imagination of science and the imagination of democracy. Here in England, its truly difficult to get anyone […]
I haven’t been here for a very long time. Its nice to write my password and go through the gate. I feel like I’ve been staying in somebody else’s house for a while. Today and yesterday felt more familiar. We built the geostationary orbit and making things is like a cipher, the thing you are […]
This is about visiting the Indian Deep Space Network this week. The huge white dishes follow the moon every day, East to West. While we were there, a movie was streaming down, live, of the surface of the moon. It took me a while to realise that it was live. I didn’t know what to […]
Kritha
Pulha
Pulsya
Atri
Angirasu
Vasista (Arundhati)
Maricha
[Shiv Vishwanathan-yesterday at NIAS]
Can we think through a new imagination? What is the imagination of India, what is the imagination of science. What does science stand for in the face of nomadic and marginalised imaginations? Is imagination about conjuring an aura and where do these exist, where are they allowed to exist? What are knowledge […]
There is no treaty banning weapons in Space. What there is, in the Outer Space Treaty, is a ban on using nuclear weapons on celestial bodies.
The weapons that can be used against spacecraft are on the earth. We are in the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore and Dr Subrata Goshroy is over from […]
The students at Srishti talk about the moon they saw a couple of weeks ago when they were on separate field trips in different parts of India. Guitar by Yashas.
We arrived in Tilda in a hysterical panic. The local train was jam packed and we had thirteen people plus luggage to get off in thirty seconds. The plan was to throw the luggage out of the window onto the track. The friendly man who said abstract things was helping us pile up the seats […]
Goonhilly is no longer transmitting.
The sixty satellite dishes of the largest earth station in the world are being dismantled. Efforts are underway to suggest re purposing of the dishes. The receiving dishes can be used as radio telescopes, they could be used as parabolic antennas to harvest solar energy. They could be used for […]
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