Angela Saini is an award winning young science journalist based in UK. The book is a record of her impressions and observations on her various visits to Indian scientific and technical institutions. It is a journalist's impression and she writes with enthusiasm.
I enjoyed reading the book .The content is interesting and not too geeky though the writer hops from one geek world to another. This is a book on changing India and the realm is science. At the moment anyone and everyone seems to be interested in India . Indians and non- Indians are equally involved in the debate around India’s emerging position as a global power. Some of the chapters are quite informative and you get to know the views of some very interesting geeks. The writer does not make too many critical comments and the observations are pretty open-ended without trying to draw any definitive conclusion on sensitive issues. It is a good read .I personally got to know about some of the great work being done with e-governance , agriculture and farming in different states of India. The stories around innovations and progress in IT are pretty hackneyed by now . But very few people are aware about the achievements in other disciplines .
I found the chapters on Vaimanika Shastra pretty amusing .I have not seen any reference to the document in any contemporary writing I have come across.
I enjoyed reading the book .The content is interesting and not too geeky though the writer hops from one geek world to another. This is a book on changing India and the realm is science. At the moment anyone and everyone seems to be interested in India . Indians and non- Indians are equally involved in the debate around India’s emerging position as a global power. Some of the chapters are quite informative and you get to know the views of some very interesting geeks. The writer does not make too many critical comments and the observations are pretty open-ended without trying to draw any definitive conclusion on sensitive issues. It is a good read .I personally got to know about some of the great work being done with e-governance , agriculture and farming in different states of India. The stories around innovations and progress in IT are pretty hackneyed by now . But very few people are aware about the achievements in other disciplines .
I found the chapters on Vaimanika Shastra pretty amusing .I have not seen any reference to the document in any contemporary writing I have come across.
