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Life and work of the great Visionary, Homi J. Bhabha

by happy-go-lucky on 1/24/23, 8:42 AM with 11 comments

• by vjust on 1/24/23, 7:56 PM

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha#Death

  He rubbed shoulders with giants of Theoretical Physics, and was on the verge of taking India into the nuclear club, in 1966.

  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.

  USA and India were 'almost enemies' in those decades, a period when India refused to be bullied by either side.

• by Gimpei on 1/24/23, 9:01 PM

  For a second, I thought this was about Homi K. Bhabha, notorious among other things for this gem of a sentence:

  "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."

• by FlyingSnake on 1/24/23, 8:57 PM

  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.

  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).

  1: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13868972/

• by skanga on 1/24/23, 7:54 PM

  Terrific profile. There are several institutions in India named after him such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bhabha Hospital, etc.

• by ChrisMarshallNY on 1/24/23, 7:41 PM

  Thanks so much for sharing that!

  I had been unaware of Mr. Bhabha, before this.

  He was pretty awesome dude.