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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Indian Museum of Human Development?

NYTimes has a report about an impending auction of some artifacts of science history. How I wish one of our Indian agencies/corporate buys up some of these and makes a science museum. Its such a pity that the land that gave the world such wonders of science like the decimal system, the zero, had plastic surgery during the time of Sushruta in 6th century BC does not have a decent science museum while we spend millions on statues year on year.

We can start with a nucleus of such a manuscript library and slowly build it up (hopefully adding few remaining Indian manuscripts on science etc. It might rekindle the scientific spirit in some of its wonder struck children visitors.

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