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...Homi K. Bhabha, a renowned professor of English, art history and South Asian studies at the University of Chicago, will join the English department next year as a tenured professor...
...Bhabha is one of the world's leading figures in postcolonial studies, according to Marquand Professor of English Lawrence Buell, the chair of the English department...
Died. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 56, India's top nuclear physicist, a Nehru protege who, after taking over the Indian Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, built with U.S. and other foreign help a capability that by now has put the country within 18 months of having a Bomb (which it says it doesn't want); in the crash of an Air-India 707 jetliner on Mont Blanc, killing all 117 aboard...
...Homi J. Bhabha. chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, even maintains that the price is right. In a recent broadcast. Bhabha said that less than $21 million would buy a stockpile of 50 atomic bombs; for an additional $10 million, India could build 50 two-megaton H-bombs. Western experts agree with Bhabha's figures...
Huxley was strongly supported by his fellow scientist, Homi J. Bhabha, who heads India's atomic energy projects. Bhabha was not enthusiastic about oral contraceptives, which, he said, cost too much and must be "used systematically and precisely," but "if some substance could be developed that could be mixed in one's daily diet and would have the effect of reducing the chance of conception by about 30%, the problem would be immediately solved." Indian delegates favored voluntary sterilization of all Indian couples with more than three children; the congress itself unanimously advocated sterilization as an effective...