The Price Of Triumph: NSG Waiver And After

  The Price Of Triumph: NSG Waiver And After   THE NSG waiver is now officially in the bag, with the Indian media portraying this to be a major foreign policy victory. What has been … Read more

The Hard Landing For Nuclear Power

    The Hard Landing  For Nuclear Power   HYPE is very much like a drug induced high – makes you feel you are floating on air as long as it lasts, but the landing … Read more

Bailout For US Automobile Big-3

  Bailout For US Automobile Big-3 IT has been a while since the US Congress approved a $750 billion bail-out package aimed at pulling the US out of the biggest crisis in US and global … Read more

Twelfth Congress of the All India Peoples Science Network

  Twelfth Congress of the All India Peoples Science Network   ON December 20, 2008, the streets of Ranchi reverberated to the sounds of Jan Vigyan Zindabad, AIPSN Zindabad as over 2,500 activists of the … Read more

SCIENCE COMMONS: Collaboration, Not Competition To Promote Scientific Advance

  (Below is an abridged version of the background paper circulated at a workshop, organised to examine the notion of Science Commons – a collaborative, open source framework for promoting advances and innovations in Science. … Read more

Memorandum of Association

SOCIETY FOR DELHI SCIENCE FORUM D-158, Lower Ground Floor Saket, New Delhi – 110017 Memorandum of Association 1) Name of the Society: The name of the society shall be “Society for Delhi Science Forum” henceforth … Read more

US Car Industry: One Down, Two To Go?

US Car Industry: One Down, Two To Go? A FAMOUS joke goes that when Israel won major battles against its neighbours, an admiring USA asked Israel to give the US its top general, to which … Read more

Military Aviation Supermarket

Military Aviation Supermarket Aviation buffs and business analysts, especially of the India poised variety, were all agog at the Aero India show in Bangalore earlier this month. At last, the air show at Yelahanka air … Read more

Text of final judgement in the matter of DDA’s scheme near Sultangarhi / Vasant Kunj in J-zone

HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 4978 OF 2002 Date of hearing:             September 16, 2002 Date of decision:             September 16, 2002 Delhi Science Forum                                                                                      PETITIONER Through:           Mr S.Muralidhar with Ms. … Read more

Why Pakistan’s Technology Does Not Tick

Alternatively: Pakistan: Squandering its Technological Legacy Technology Acquisition in Pakistan: Story of a Failed Privileged Class and a Successful Working Class, Ghulam Kibria, City Press, 1998. Engineers and technologists are generally an inarticulate lot and … Read more

The BJP on the Net

The Internet is no longer a remote phenomenon. In this election, almost all national parties have put up web sites so that people can log in from any part of the globe and see their … Read more

Satellites Over South Asia (Courtesy: BookReview)

Broadcasting Culture and the Public Interest, David Page and William Crawley, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 455, Rs.250.00 India’s Communications Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts, Arvind Singhal and Everett M Rogers, Sage … Read more