The minister for HRD proves no apologist for his views as Aditi Phadnis discovers over a simple meal
There is nothing Murli Manohar Joshi enjoys more than a good intellectual argument. Having taught postgraduate-level physics for close to four decades, he is Socratic in his method of achieving knowledge, deliberately casting doubts on accepted beliefs. Lunch with BS was an exploration of the personality of a man cast by his adversaries as the most retrograde and obscurantist figure in the government.
I asked him, somewhat incautiously, why this was so. Could it be because of the tika he habitually wore, his dhoti-kurta, his choti and his constant harking back to the ancient Indian scientific tradition
