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This will be a #Burnol moment for many. I will give you proof that all the history we are taught in schools & colleges in pure junk. They were all written by a certain vested political class. We need to fix it now. This tweet is about who founded the great #CalcuttaUniversity +
The 1st ever letter drafted towards establishing a state of the art University in India in lines of Oxford and Cambridge was drafted than none other than my GGGG grandfather #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee in 1846. @primrose, you wanted it, I got it. The entire proposal! Earlier I ++ 
(3/n) just published the first page of the handwritten proposal. Here is the entire letter and everything is available at #UttarparaJoykrishnaLibrary if you want evidence. So here's the sequence of events in the run upto establishing one of the best Universities in the world++
#CVRaman one of the greatest Indian scientists ever of the modern era. The man behind the Raman effect, only Indian citizen to have won the Nobel in Physics. He was also the first Asian to get the Nobel Prize in Science.
Thread on his death anniversary today.
Thread on his death anniversary today.
And it was not just physics, he published around 475 papers on topics ranging from astronomy to metereology to physiology. His work on the mridangam, bought to light the accoustical knowledge possesed in ancient India. #CVRaman
The genius was born on November 7, 1888 in a small village Thiruvanaikaval near Trichy on the banks of the Kaveri. His maternal grandfather Saptarishi Sastri was a renowned Sanskrit scholar, and his parents were R. Chandrasekhara Iyer and Parvathi Ammal. #CVRaman
#CVRaman one of the greatest Indian scientists ever of the modern era. The man behind the Raman effect, only Indian citizen to have won the Nobel in Physics. He was also the first Asian to get the Nobel Prize in Science.
Thread on his Jayanti today.
Thread on his Jayanti today.
And it was not just physics, he published around 475 papers on topics ranging from astronomy to metereology to physiology. His work on the mridangam, bought to light the accoustical knowledge possesed in ancient India. #CVRaman
The genius was born on November 7, 1888 in a small village Thiruvanaikaval near Trichy on the banks of the Kaveri. His maternal grandfather Saptarishi Sastri was a renowned Sanskrit scholar, and his parents were R. Chandrasekhara Iyer and Parvathi Ammal. #CVRaman
#Thread on why did Sir C V Raman throw Nehru’s bust on the floor and smashed the Bharat Ratna given to him by Nehru government?
Bcoz Raman was very much against Nehruvian principles of socialism & Sovit-ism
#NationalScienceDay2020 #NationalScienceDay @Aabhas24
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Bcoz Raman was very much against Nehruvian principles of socialism & Sovit-ism
#NationalScienceDay2020 #NationalScienceDay @Aabhas24
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Raman was one man who had bravely spoken against Nehru’s communist model State & had said that it would be disastrous for a country like India
But Nehru who did not wanted to be in bad terms with Raman, due to his popularity awarded him National Professorship & Bharat Ratna
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But Nehru who did not wanted to be in bad terms with Raman, due to his popularity awarded him National Professorship & Bharat Ratna
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#CVRaman very well knew that Nehru had turned all Science Institutes into a place of sinecure scientists who did little by way of innovation or discovery
He held Nehru responsible for the lack of research in most institutes
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#RamanEffect
He held Nehru responsible for the lack of research in most institutes
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#RamanEffect
