Scientist, nationalist and a friend. In-Charge, Foreign Affairs Dept, Bharatiya Janata Party, India. Views expressed are strictly personal.
Oct 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Mathematics and art of perfume preparation: 6th century Indian scholar Varahamihira described perfume preparation methods his book Bruhatsamhita.He adapted combinatorial analysis and magic square structure to arrive possible number of perfumes from a set of specified ingredients.
Now the research paper analyses two methods of extraction of perfumes described by Varahamihira using mathematical models and computer algorithms. In 1st method called Gandharnava,over 28,000 unique combinations can be derived from 16 ingredients using combinatorial mathematics.
Apr 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Points I raised during @BBCNewsnight interview but were edited 1. States with highest cases, absolute numbers or per million cases, neither had Kumbh nor had elections. So data does not support narrative that these events are responsible for second wave.
2. Election is a constitutional process, London mayeoral election will not be postponed due to COVID 3. Kumbh is a tradition of thousands of years. It's not easy to simply close it. But when Prime Minister appealed, religious heads agreed. That's credible.
Jan 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Now COVID cases in India around 15K/day, it's interesting how @BBCWorld has done misleading , false reporting on COVID in India throughout the pandemic. BBC correspondents @NicolaCareem@yogital and others owe apology to India, if they have slightest integrity
Look at this infamous interview of Ramanan Laxminarayan by @NicolaCareem , in which he predicted 300 million cases, 5 million hospitalization and 100,000 ICU by July 2020
Jan 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Dr Gagandeep Kang has taken extremely conservative view on COVAXIN. She is right when she says she has never seen anything like this before. But the fact remains that no one has seen such a pandemic before.
When in the past USFDA approved any vaccine so rapidly? Or when pharma comoanies could start clinical testing of vaccine within few months of isolation of novel virus? unusual circumstances demand unusual approaches.
Mar 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Several media outlets including @IndiaToday , @BBCWorld are telecasting interview of "Epidemiologist" Dr Ramanan Lakshminarayan, who predicted that India will have 200 Million Coronavirus cases. So who is Dr Lakshminarayan?
First of all, he is economist and not epidemiologist. He worked with Public Health Foundation of India for 4 years. While working with PHFI, he launched two private companies without PHFI permission. PHFI did not renew his contract in 2016 .
Jun 25, 2018 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Emergency days are integral part of my childhood memories. Our house was close to RSS HQ in Nagpur. My father and his two brothers were in jail under MISA and third brother remained underground in Assam. My eldest bro was detained in Satyagrha.
Father n one uncle were in Nagpur jail.Meeting them on weekly basis was an essential activity.But not everyone was fortunate.Many arrested frm Nagpur were shifted to Thane, Pune, Nasik.Those families couldn't afford even monthly meetings. 2nd uncle was in Cuttack jail in Odisha
