For a second, I thought this was about Homi K. Bhabha, notorious among other things for this gem of a sentence:
"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to 'normalise' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality."
Dr. Bhabha belonged to a special generation of Indian scientists like C.V. Raman, Raja Ramanna etc who were well respected by their peers in East and West.
The TV series Rocket Boys is a fictionalised account of Dr. Bhabha (Father of Indian atomic program) and Dr. Sarabhai (Father of Indian space program).
Terrific profile. There are several institutions in India named after him such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bhabha Hospital, etc.
Thanks so much for sharing that!
I had been unaware of Mr. Bhabha, before this.
He was pretty awesome dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha#Death
He rubbed shoulders with giants of Theoretical Physics, and was on the verge of taking India into the nuclear club, in 1966.
Its speculated (including an ex-CIA anecdote) that he was assasinated. USA couldn't handle the fact of India growing into a Nuclear and Space power. Another Indian scientist Sarabhai also died under suspicious circumstances. But Bhabha's seemed especially a strategic concern for US policy in those days.
USA and India were 'almost enemies' in those decades, a period when India refused to be bullied by either side.