Comments on: My journey through the Geek Nation – III http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/my-journey-through-the-geek-nation-%e2%80%93-iii Powered by Webshore Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:53:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Indian Science in the Media | Critical Twenties http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/my-journey-through-the-geek-nation-%e2%80%93-iii#comment-2926 Indian Science in the Media | Critical Twenties Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:42:28 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=2789#comment-2926 [...] a few days back I finished a book that was supposed to show ‘how Indian science is taking over the world’. I was hoping [...] [...] a few days back I finished a book that was supposed to show ‘how Indian science is taking over the world’. I was hoping [...]

]]> By: Akshat http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/my-journey-through-the-geek-nation-%e2%80%93-iii#comment-2918 Akshat Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:39:33 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=2789#comment-2918 I think she admits that it was the publishers that gave it the tag line and she wasn't sure what the book has become once she had completed it. 1st generation. Engineer from Oxford. Was a journalist with the BBC, and quit her job to write this book. I think she admits that it was the publishers that gave it the tag line and she wasn’t sure what the book has become once she had completed it.

1st generation. Engineer from Oxford. Was a journalist with the BBC, and quit her job to write this book.

]]> By: Arghya http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/my-journey-through-the-geek-nation-%e2%80%93-iii#comment-2917 Arghya Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:32:20 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=2789#comment-2917 Nice posts Akshat. Definitely now a book I won't read. It's always strange when someone uses a strange characterisation (India as a geek nation) and then goes on to rip that apart. She might as well have said India is an atheistic nation and then gone on to demolish that. Seems like the backbone of the book is not any particularly incisive thoughts but rather a self-serving assumption. What's her background by the way? second-generation who can't get a handle on how Indians are still so irrational? Nice posts Akshat. Definitely now a book I won’t read. It’s always strange when someone uses a strange characterisation (India as a geek nation) and then goes on to rip that apart. She might as well have said India is an atheistic nation and then gone on to demolish that. Seems like the backbone of the book is not any particularly incisive thoughts but rather a self-serving assumption.

What’s her background by the way? second-generation who can’t get a handle on how Indians are still so irrational?

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