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Ravi V S
V.S.Ravi is a distinguished and highly decorated IPS officer having served both the Government of AP and the Government of India, for 35 years. He retired in 1998. He is a grandson of the Late Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, one of the Chief Architects of the Constitution of India.
Though a student of Physics, Ravi is one of the foremost authorities on Shakespeare in the country. He has also kept in touch with the latest developments in Science and Technology and has written five highly acclaimed books on Science
LESSONS LEARNT IN A VILLAGE
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Roseto, a small village which nestles in the mountains near Philadelphia, suddenly shot into fame because of the announcement of the results of a detailed study carried...
HUMAN EVOLUTION AND GENETIC ENGINEERING
In the rice fields of Thailand, one farmer ploughs his soil with a water-buffalo, a method known for centuries. At the same time, his neighbour uses his...
INDIA THE CRADLE OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems...
ARE COMPUTERS CONSCIOUS?
Let us assume that we are able to design a computer that can learn, reflect and create. Would that prove that human beings are merely sophisticated machines?
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
There are of course different versions of the same story, anyway, the main point in the parable was that each of the blind persons had attempted to describe the elephant on the basis of the evidence he could gather.
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