[7-5:] “Great sage.”
[7-6:] Actual perception of God.
[7-7:] The saint’s full name was Nagendranath Bhaduri. Math means hermitage or ashram.
CHAPTER: 8
India’s Great Scientist, J.C. Bose
“Jagadis Chandra Bose’s wireless inventions antedated those of Marconi.”
Overhearing this provocative remark, I walked closer to a sidewalk group of professors engaged in scientific discussion. If my motive in joining them was racial pride, I regret it. I cannot deny my keen interest in evidence that India can play a leading part in physics, and not metaphysics alone.
“What do you mean, sir?”
The professor obligingly explained. “Bose was the first one to invent a wireless coherer and an instrument for indicating the refraction of electric waves. But the Indian scientist did not exploit his inventions commercially. He soon turned his attention from the inorganic to the organic world. His revolutionary discoveries as a plant physiologist are outpacing even his radical achievements as a physicist.”