Mohit acharya jagadish chandra

That Geddes was himself a great fan of Bose apart from being very observant in noticing in him the streaks of greatness, is very much obvious in his writing. This book is again a tribute to the great scientist and pioneer who set the trends of Indian science and took it to the international platforms. Presently, I got to review this third book written by Meher Wan with an interesting title.

There are at least a dozen biographies of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, written by authors in a span of hundred years from to , in addition to umpteen entries in encyclopedias around the world regarding his life and research see box. Despite his great achievements which could make any Indian feel proud, his public popularity has not gone up. During a quiz competition in a city college, the undergraduate students of BSc could recognise the portraits of Newton and Einstein but failed to identify those of Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Ray — two Indian scientists of international repute.

This is nothing untoward, as images of Newton and Einstein have been so frequently used in different media and even in commercial merchandise that everyone is familiar with them. However, we are hardly introduced to the lives and work of great Indian scientists, not even through the government sponsored textbooks. This omission seems glaring when we think of the significant research these scientists have done, the respect they commanded at the global level, the exemplary principled life they led and the path they carved for Indian science.

It is this omission which the book in hand, The Scientific Sufi undertakes to correct. He does not write the back story of a great scientist but the story of the protagonist Jagadish, a simple rural boy, with a busy, hardworking father, and a doting mother who harbours great aspirations for her son. As Dr Wan builds up the story, we can see the boy growing up immersed in a completely indigenous milieu.

Most of us can relate to the travails of Jagadish when he moves from Bangla vernacular school in small town Faridpur to English speaking St Xavier in Calcutta.

Education: Acharya Jagadish Chandra

How he overcomes his fear, insecurities, health issues to study Physics in premier institutes of London to his unrelenting struggle against British imperialism, petty egotist bureaucratic hassles to finally emerge as the world famous Professor Bose — the whole story has been narrated in a lucid, conversational and interesting way. In 18 creatively titled chapters, the author elucidates the life of Bose in a very intimate way.

A Sufi is a mystic in the Islamic school of religious practice that emphasises the inward search for God and shuns materialism.