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Remembering Harish Chandra Mukherjee, a Doyen of Political Journalism in India
Just a few months ago, with the last phase of the seven-phase-long Lok Sabha election just over, preparations for the long-awaited results were underway. News channels were displaying exit polls, heated panel discussions were taking place, major party leaders were busy giving key instructions to their comrades.
The exit polls published on almost all the channels made it fairly clear that the NDA government was coming back to the centre for a consecutive third time, that too, with an overwhelming majority (350+ seats for BJP, 400+ for the NDA). Given the fact that the BJP was dealing with a decade of anti-incumbency, these poll statistics came as a shock to many expecting a positive turnaround this time.
In the midst of all these, a statement by a senior anchor of a national news channel did reflect the extent to which the mainstream media has become pliant to autocratic power and corporate capita
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Harish-Chandra
(b. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 11 October 1923; d. Princeton, New Jersey, 16 October 1983),
mathematics, Lie groups.
Harish-Chandra was a major figure in the mathematics of the twentieth century. His work linked algebra, analysis, geometry, and group theory in a fundamental and epoch-making manner that subsequently became the foundation on which modern work in a variety of fields, ranging from differential geometry and mathematical physics to numbertheory, is being carried out.
Life and Career Overview . Harish-Chandra’s father, Chandra Kishore, was a civil engineer in what was then known as United Provinces, situated in the Gangetic plains of northern India, and his mother, Satyagati Seth Chandrarani, was the daughter of a lawyer. Thus, Harish-Chandra’s early years were spent in a comfortable upper-middle-class family. As is often the case, Harish-Chandra’s early years were divided between his parents and grandparents. He was deeply influenced in many
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Harish-Chandra was a mathematician of great power, vision, and remarkable ingenuity. His profound contributions to the representation theory of Lie groups, harmonic analysis, and related areas left researchers a rich legacy that continues today. This book presents the proceedings of an AMS Special Session entitled, “Representation Theory and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis: A Special Session Honoring the Memory of Harish-Chandra”, which marked 75 years since his birth and 15 years since his untimely death at age 60.
Contributions to the volume were written by an outstanding group of internationally known mathematicians. Included are expository and historical surveys and original research papers. The book also includes talks given at the IAS Memorial Service in 1983 by colleagues who knew Harish-Chandra well. Also reprinted are two articles entitled, “Some Recollections of Harish-Chandra”, by A. Borel, and “Harish-Chandra's c-Function: A Mathematical J