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Dear Friends, Karl Paul Polanyi (October 25, 1886 – April 23, 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher. He is known for his opposition to the traditional economic thought and for his book, The Great Transformation, which argued that the emergence of market-based societies was not inevitable. Polanyi is remembered today as the…

Dear Friends, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose  (30 November 1858, 23 November 1937), was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction from India. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian…

Dear Friends, Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was a renowned physicist born at Trichy, Tamilnadu.  He carried out groundbreaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light…

Dear Friends, Sir Albert Howard  was an English botanist, an organic farming pioneer, and a principal figure in the early organic movement. Howard worked in India as agricultural adviser and was in charge of a government research farm at Indore. Howard observed and came to support traditional Indian farming practices over conventional agricultural science. Though…

Dear Friends, Herman Edward Daly is an American ecological economist and emeritus professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland. Daly was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. He was a co-founder and associate editor of the…

Dear Friends, Gunter Pauli was born in 1956. Pauli has rich academic credentials. He has been a resident of Japan since 1994 and spends considerable time initiating and monitoring projects around the world. He has been active as an entrepreneur setting up a dozen companies, a lecturer in many universities and commentator on culture, science,…

Dear Friends, Arthur Koestler (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. In 1940 he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, from his residence in Britain, Koestler espoused many political causes, and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies and…

Dear Friends, John Muir (21 April 1838 -  24 December 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. In this month, we are giving some of his quotable…

Dear Friends, Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for…