Space/Science Historian | Astrophysicist | DPhil Student @UniOfOxford | Formerly @unicc_ict @S20_India @insa_academy | Adj @RRI_Bangalore |
New Delhi, India
Joined March 2010
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The wait ends here! Our book #EssentialAstrophysics is here! It feels so good to hold a copy. Thank you @CRCPress @tandfonline @shantanu_basu
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"Ptolemy made a universe which lasted 1,400 years. Newton also made a universe, which has lasted 300 years. Einstein has made a universe and I can’t tell you how long that will last.”
- George Bernard Shaw pays tribute to Albert Einstein #OTD in 1930.
#NobelPrize
If science is hardware, there is no reason the hardware should not sit beside the idol. If science is prestige, an ancient Indian origin for it only adds to the prestige. Nothing in a rocket objects to being blessed.
My column in @ThePrintIndia
'Why Nehru’s idea of scientific temper failed in India'
Pranav Sharma, historian of science at University of Oxford, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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'Why Nehru’s idea of scientific temper failed in India'
Pranav Sharma, historian of science at University of Oxford, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
theprint.in/opinion/nehru-sc…
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It's very rare to find gems like #Mahishasurmardini by #BirenKrishnaBhadra. Nothing more beautiful than listening to it on the record player! Feeling so blessed!
#Delhi #MorningMusings
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"The program (@isro) was germinated, conceptualized, and evolved by the scientists." -Prof Kasturirangan on the origins of 🇮🇳🇨🇵 partnership in space. Read more about 🇮🇳🇨🇵 scientific history at hos.ifindia.in
#Space #History #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav
@cnes @ifiofficiel – at New Delhi, India
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Congratulations 🎊 Thank you @kris_sg for your generosity in supporting science, technology and research, innovation in India.
The machines have not risen to our standard. We are lowering the standard to meet them. Superintelligence will not arrive. It will be declared by people who have forgotten what the word meant.
My piece in @ThePrintIndia:
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'AI is not intelligent. We have just lowered the bar'
Pranav Sharma, historian of science, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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'What happens when a university burns in war? Science is difficult to rebuild'
As a Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, read #ThePrintOpinion by Pranav Sharma @quantumpranav, historian of science.
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Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences was struck in Kyiv. Buildings can be rebuilt. The seminar culture and supervisory lineages inside them cannot. A scientific community does not regenerate; it goes extinct.
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@ThePrintIndia
Today, Russian strikes hit #Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences. Military forces must not target #highered or scientific infrastructure – civilian facilities. SAR condemns such attacks for the death and injuries caused and for the research stifled.ow.ly/WzfY50ZSs9a
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ESA and ISRO are extending and broadening their cooperation for another five years, opening new opportunities to work together on space weather, exploration and space sustainability. 🇮🇳
🔗 esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_n…
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You cannot be absent for the substance of a life and then expect to be present in its accounting. I have a life, a good one. It has almost none of the people I once knew as indispensable.
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Pranav Sharma writes.
भारत के पास अब एक पीढ़ी के भीतर बड़े पैमाने पर गरीबी और भीषण भुखमरी को पूरी तरह खत्म करने की तकनीकी क्षमता है. लेकिन क्या वह ऐसा करना चाहता है?
भारत के पास भूखमरी को खत्म करने की टेक्नोलॉजी अभी मौजूद है, सवाल जनता की इच्छाशक्ति का है
विज्ञान के इतिहासकार प्रणव शर्मा @quantumpranav लिखते हैं
#ThePrintOpinion
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Do feminists ever retire? Gloria Steinem died fighting last century’s battles
My article
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That gap between capacity and obligation has a specific name in our moment: hunger. What remains scarce is the decision to aim the assembled capacity at that end rather than another.
Many thanks to @txprasanna and @RamaNewDelhi
'India has the technology to end extreme hunger now. It’s a question of public will'
Pranav Sharma @quantumpranav, a historian of science, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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My essay in @scroll_in on friendship, life, and the absurd in between.
In your 20s, everyone you meet seems like a permanent friend. At 33, you stop blaming distance and geography and start doing an audit. I lost friends because I was short-tempered, too much, too loud in the room, too insistent.
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Pranav Sharma writes.
My essay in @scroll_in: friendship was never a permanent claim on someone, only a present you keep renewing. We lose people to time, to distance, to politics, to our own failures of nerve and attention. None of that is failure. It's just what it costs to have loved anyone at all.
Many thanks to @tajmahalfoxtrot and Divya Aslesha!
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The hungry are not waiting on an invention. They are waiting on a decision. Only subjects who have internalised the idea that feeding the hungry is what their sovereignty was for can compel the state to do it, converting a technical capacity into a political obligation and refusing every account of national achievement that leaves it out.
'India has the technology to end extreme hunger now. It’s a question of public will'
Pranav Sharma @quantumpranav, a historian of science, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
theprint.in/opinion/india-te…
