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Kolkata | August 15, 2021
Bose Institute: The Temple of Science Through AIR:
Modern Indian Science The Kolkata Saga
Manas Chakra- 1971, Bose Institute pi-meson, by Bibha Manas Pratim Das: and Broadcasting in saving the planet
barty: Bose Insti- has become an au- Choudhuri, a student The year, 1931. The 1977. Apart from the earth was broadcast.
tute, also known as tonomous grant-in- of D.M. Bose, (ii) the place, Riga city of regular programmes, This was not exclu-
Basu Vigyan Mandir, aid institution of mechanism of how Latvia. A thick layer serials on science sive to Kolkata but
is one of the premier Government of India. queens produce other of snow has covered were planned. The like the NCSTC col-
research institutes It has a unified cam- queens, workers or the landscape. Gen- first mega-serial was laboration earlier it
in India. Acharya pus at Salt Lake, four soldiers in the insect so- eral Vornoff meets on Human Evolution, was a countrywide af-
Jagadish Chandra experimental stations ciety, by the legendary Ghanshyam Das and and was broadcast fair. The VP support
Bose, the doyen of at Falta, Shyamnagar, naturalist Gopal Chan- takes him to his from 1992 to 1994 with continues till this day
science in modern Madhyamgram and dra Bhattacharyya (win- home. There he re- help from National and the joint effort
India, set up Bose In- Darjeeling, and a mu- ner of Rabindra Puraskar, veals his true identity. Council for Science and has been able to pro-
stitute on November seum on J.C. Bose in 1968 and Ananda His real surname is Technology Commu- duce a good num-
30, 1937 (inciden- the original premises Puraskar,1975),and(iii) Rothstein and though nication (NCSTC). ber of popular serials
tally, his 60th birth- of the Bose Institute. choleratoxinanditsrole he is a high-ranking
day) at 93/1, Upper Over the years, a in the pathogenesis of officer in the German
Circular Road (now large number of cholerabyProf.Shambu army, he is actually a
known as A.P.C. heads of states, scien- Nath De (later nomi- Jew by birth. What
Road), solely for the tists including Nobel nated for the Nobelprize). happened next?
That was ‘Poka,’ the
first story of the
Ghana-da series by
Premendra Mitra,
well-known novelist
and science fiction
writer. The Science
Cell of All India
Radio (AIR), Kolkata
decided to make a
radio play out of it.
Twelve more stories Then, of course, there of varying lengths.
were added to complete was a long lull as far The latest one is on
aradioserial.Itwaspro- as broadcast of such Artificial Intelli-
duced in 2008. But serials was con- gence (AI). The na-
AIR’sromancewithsci- cerned. AIR Kolkata tional broadcaster
ence broadcast had partnered with Vi- remains dedicated to
startedmuchearlier.The gyan Prasar (VP) in the spread of science
mandate for setting up a 2008 with radio plays awareness through
separate Science Cell in on science fiction that these b r o a d c a s t s .
advancement and diffu- laureates and eminent Notably, a crater on eight AIR stations in- has already been *Producer,
sion of knowledge. In personalities have the far side of moon cluding Kolkata came mentioned. In the Science Cell,
his inaugural address visited this seat of has been named as from the Union Min- same year a 52- AIR, Kolkata
- ‘The Voice of Life’- learning and research. ‘Bose’ in honour of istry of Information episode long serial on i2manas@gmail.com
he said, “I dedicate Postgraduate courses Sir J.C. Bose’s work
today this Institute – in physical and on wireless commu- The IIT, Khragpur:
not merely a Labora- sciences have re- nication, and the star A Beacon of History
tory but a Temple. ” cently been started HD 86081 has been
In his endeavour, here, After J.C. Bose named as ‘Bibha’ in Minakshi De: formed a committee secondary institu-
J.C. Bose received passed away in 1937, honour of Bibha After Independence, in 1946 to consider tions.On the ground
moral and/or material his nephew, Deben- C h o w d h u r i ’ s the first Prime Minis- the creation of Higher that the state had the
support from Ra- dra Mohan Bose be- contribution towards ter of India Jawahar- Technical Institutions highest concentration
bindranath Tagore, came the Director. discovering pi-meson. lal Nehru wanted to for post- war indus- of industries at the
Swami Vivekananda, Some of the notable promote higher edu- trial development of time, Dr. Roy per-
Sister Nivedita, Sara achievements of the *Retired Professor of cation as well as sci- India. A 22-member suaded Nehru to es-
Chapman Bull, Gopal Bose Institute are the Chemistry, ence and technology committee of scholars tablish the first such
Krishna Gokhale and discoveries of: (i) Bose Institute, in India. With the and entrepreneurs institute in West Ben-
MahtmaGandhi. Since sub- atomic particle, chakmanas09@gmail.com help of Dr. B. C. Roy was formed under the gal. The first Indian
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