1.
Jayant Narlikar
a. Born in Kolhapur Maharashtra, the then
state of British India on 10th July 1938
b. Studied at BHU & Cambridge
University
c. Known for;
i. Quasi-steady state
ii. Cosmology
iii. Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravity
d. Awards
i. Smith’s Prize
ii. Padma Bhushan
iii. Adams Prize
iv. Kalinga Prize
v. Padma Vibhushan
vi. Prix Jles Janseen
vii. Maharashtra Bhushan
e. Scientific career
i. Physics
ii. Astronomy
iii. Writer
2.
Professor Gaitonde collides
with a truck and getting exported to a parallel world
a. Prof. Gaitonde, is a renowned historian.
b. Presided around 999
c. Takes up Pune-Bombay bound Jijamata
Express.
d. Train reaches to Sarhad where an Anglo
Indian frisks in to check permits with handful of British officers
e. It was a British raj frontier, British
Territory.
f. His co-passenger happens to be a Khan
sahib who was destined to Peshawar
g. Train reaches Victoria Terminus
h. Sees GBMR ‘Greater Bombay Metropolitan
Railway
3.
Prof. Gaitonde in Bombay
a. Alights
at VT
b. Confronts a building inscribed;
EAST
INDIA HOUSE HEADQUARTERSS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
c. Shocked according to him The East India
company wounded its business just after 1857 revolt.
d. Enters Forbes building and enquires for
sh Vijay Gaitonde
e. Goes to town hall library
f. Gets his own written history
compilation
i. Vol. I upto the period of Ashoka
ii. Vol. II upto the period of Samudragupta
iii. Vol. III upto the period of Md Ghori
iv. Vol. IV upto the death of Aurangzeb
4.
HISTORY TAKES TURN AT THE
EPISODE OF BATTLE OF PANIPAT
a. The problem occurred in vol 5, went to
a page with a mention of Panipat war
b. Battle of Panipat: mentioned that
Marathas won the war and Abdali routed out of India
c. This was the strong message for the
East India company which was watching this war from close quarters
d. And the company shelved its
expansionist programme
e. The Peshwas kept the Mughal as puppets.
f. But the EUROPEANS set their science and
technological centres here and the EIC
saw another opportunity to extend its influence.
g. The shehanshah of Delhi remained a mere
a rubber stamp
h. There was a lease treaty which was to
expire in 2001 according to the treaty of 1908
5.
DOCTORED ACCOUNTS OF PANIPAT
BATTLE
a. Prof got hold of history chronicle
named BHAUSAHEBANCHI BAKHAR
b. Finds a doctored account there;
mentioning how Vishwasrao was narrowly saved from being killed.
c. Prof keeps the page in his pocket
6.
AZAD MAIDAN EPISODE
a. PROF reaches to Azad Maidan, finds a
pandal programme,
b. Notices the presidential chair empty,
unoccupied
c. Rushes towards it and occupies
d. Ppl protest, stops him from going
there, a stampede happens
e. The speaker shouted ‘vacate the chair’
f. Prof showered with tomatoes, eggs and
other objects.
7.
RAJENDRA’S EXPLANATION
a. Relates it to catastrophe theory
i. Physicists discovered that atoms and
their constituent particles’ behaviour is highly unpredictable
ii. As assertion for electron; it could be
here there or anywhere.
iii. Lack of determination in quantum
theory.
b. Facts can be stranger than fantasies
c. Explains how the morale of marathas lost with vishawasrao’s death, how a
near victory slipped off from marathas tent.
d. It’s a case of travelling to parallel
world, crossing the time and space.
_Arun Thakare
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