Eric Drexler and Science Education in India

Eric Drexler (a nanotechnologist) wrote an interesting article on his blog about how the subset of visitors to his site from India, chose to visit the more technically meaty topics.

A comment on his post, which I sympathize with, provoked a second article, which sought to understand the previous post in a more nuanced manner.

During the course of reading these articles, I also stumbled upon this interesting YouTube presentation.

I have my own thoughts on this matter, having been a student and educator in both the US and in India, but I will save those for a separate post, later.

Returning to India

One of my friends from IIT Bombay, Kashyap Deorah, who moved back to India a couple of years ago has written a couple of absolutely fascinating essays on the subject. Speaking through metaphors, it dwells one level below the completely abstract, and one level above the completely mundane.

Here is are links to the first, and the second essays.