The younger daughter of Kosambi’s sister Manorama, Mangala Marathe (neé Sathe) has lived most of her life in Pune. When she was growing up, her parents lived on Prabhat Road, not very far from DDK’s ...
How often did you meet Kosambi during the period of your association with him?   Chavda was an undergraduate student of political science in Pune when he met DDK sometime in 1958. Along with a group ...
Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi1 (DDK) made signifi cant contributions to fi elds as diverse as Indian historiography, mathematics, Sanskrit literary criticism, scientifi c numismatics, statistics, and ...
During what period did you know Kosambi?Romila Thapar, the pre-eminent historian of ancient India, is professor emerita at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi.
What was the period of your association with DDK? How often did you meet him during this time?  Masson came to India to learn spoken Sanskrit when he was a graduate student at Harvard. His interaction ...
What was the period during which you overlapped with DDK at TIFR? 1960–1962Raghunathan was a student from 1960 onward at the TIFR, earning his PhD there in 1966. After a distinguished career, he ...
Ramanan: I did not know Kosambi personally.Ramanan was at the TIFR from 1957 onward, first as a student, and then on the faculty. He retired from there in 2002 and moved to the Chennai Mathematical ...
You were a schoolboy when you met Kosambi. What was the time period when you knew him?   Wajahat Habibullah had a distinguished career in the IAS between 1968 and 2005. Son of the first Commandant of ...
Memory is a sponge. It soaks up materials from other times, other places, and leaks it all over the moment in question.  Ian McEwan (2025: 83)Memory is a sponge. It soaks up materials from other times ...
However, the existing scholarship that selectively reads political motherhood only in times of turmoil, when women’s groups challenge the state and military patriarchy in the North East, falls short ...
Institutes like JNU, IIM’s, TISS etc have all undergone major structural changes with subversion of internal structures like ...
The government and business, both are in need of a paradigm shift in the way they do their job. Carbon capture, for which the ...