Скачать или смотреть संवाद # 270: Divide THESE 6 STATES before it's too late | Prof. Gautam Desiraju

Prof. Gautam R. Desiraju (born 21 August 1952) is an Indian structural chemist and Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. A pioneer of crystal engineering, he helped establish the importance of weak hydrogen bonds and introduced the “supramolecular synthon” concept.

He served as President of the International Union of Crystallography (2011–2014). Educated at St. Xavier’s College (University of Bombay) and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (PhD, 1976), he has authored/edited several influential books: Organic Solid State Chemistry (1987), Crystal Engineering: The Design of Organic Solids (1989), The Crystal as a Supramolecular Entity (1996), The Weak Hydrogen Bond: In Structural Chemistry and Biology (1999, with T. Steiner), Crystal Design: Structure and Function (2003), Crystal Engineering: A Textbook (2011, with J. J. Vittal and A. Ramanan), and the broader-interest book Bhārat: India 2.0 (2022).

He remains one of India’s most cited chemists and a leading voice on the future of chemistry and science in the country.

His latest book 'Delimitation and States Reorganization: For a Better Democracy in Bharat' is now out. Buy it here: https://amzn.in/d/9TB50ST

0:00 Trailer
0:58 Why Indira Gandhi stopped delimitation
3:00 North Bangalore Vs Chennai central
4:38 South India is over represented
7:08 How ideal delimitation happens
7:42 Small states will end North-South divide
12:48 We should follow Ambedkar’s Model
15:31 Kashmir, Kutch, Kongu Nadu & Kashi
19:40 We should follow America’s system
20:48 Rajya Sabha should be abolished
22:05 Drawback of small states
25:06 What if West Bengal teaches Sharia?
25:48 Six Muslim majority states
30:10 Dravidian ideology will vanish
34:03 Language wars are silly
37:08 These 6 states can threaten India’s unity
41:28 South being punished for population control
43:42 Jitni Abaadi Utna Haq
44:50 Is Modi’s BJP on the right path?
52:02 No gerrymandering please
53:46 We need radical changes