Bharatiya Pragna - Dr. Th Chowdary

What Swami Vivekananda is in the
realm of religion, Jagadish Chandra Bose is
so in the sphere of science, and both believed
in the mutuality of science and religion. Bose
drew his inspiration from the ancient Indian
sages. The innumerable hurdles couldn’t dent
the burning zeal of the scientific giant. He
was a rare scientist, a creative genius, a man
of character & values, a litterateur, a seer
and a patriot – all rolled into one! His life
and work hold out invaluable lessons to every
aspiring Indian, especially in the present
times.
Sir! Doctor! Professor! Jagadish
Chandra Bose was a true Indian scientist. A
physicist and a physiologist at the same time,
Bose demonstrated that stress and strain were
alike in their result on the animate and the inanimate.
Be it metal, plant or animal, Bose has
shown that their responses to the stimuli are alike.
All of them are subject to fatigue, exaultation,
memory, death, and recovery.
Indian concept of unity: His motive force
Jagadish Chandra Bose received his inspiration
and strength from the essentials of ancient
Indian wisdom which lay a stress on an
underlying unity in apparent diversity. This ‘pervading
unity’ made Bose recall “for the first
time a little of that message proclaimed by
my ancestors on the banks of the Ganges
thirty centuries ago.”
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150th Birth Year
Tribute
A beacon and visionary of Indian science
U Atreya Sarma
Work, praise & recognition
Bose’s stream of thought was appreciated
by contemporary scientists like Prof J Arthur
Thomson (in the New Statesman, England) who
were “proud to welcome” the “questionings
of a prince of experimenters,” who could
“see in anticipation the lines of physics, of
physiology and of psychology converging
and meeting.”
First Indian into the Royal Society
In recognition of his contribution to physics
as well as physiology and his path-breaking
discoveries, Jagadish Chandra Bose was
awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society
November & December 2008 Bharatiya Pragna