Talk:M. V. Ramana

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M. V. Ramana is Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA)[1], University of British Columbia as of May 2024. According to his university profile, he is also Graduate Program Director of the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program. According to his university profile, his research interests are in the broad areas of international security and energy supply, with a particular focus on topics related to nuclear energy and fissile materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons.

He has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, the Indian Government, the Indus Civilization, or caste as of June 2024.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]

On November 5, 2017, he signed the letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) to the California State Board of Education[3] where he:

  • Misrepresented scholarship stating "Mythological terms substitute for historical ones for example the 'Indus Valley Civilization' (a fact-based geographic term) appears to be replaced with a religiously-motivated and ideologically charged term 'Indus-Saraswati/Sarasvati Civilization'. The Saraswati is a mythical river"[4][5][6]
  • Implied that Christians and Muslims existed in Ancient India, prior to the founding of these religions ​

In 2016, he signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[7][8] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[9] stated:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."


Publications related to India[edit]

Book[edit]

  1. M. V. Ramana. The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India. 2012

Journal Publications[edit]

  1. Lauren Borja and M. V. Ramana. Command and Control of India’s Nuclear Arsenal. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020.
  2. T. S. Krishnan, Annapureddy Rama Papi Reddy, and M. V. Ramana. Impact of Natural Background Radiation on Health: Understanding the Debate. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 55, no. 37, 2020.
  3. Arjun Makhijani and M. V. Ramana. Can Small Modular Reactors Help Mitigate Climate Change? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 77, no. 4, 2021.
  4. Downer, J., and M. V. Ramana. Empires Built on Sand: On the Fundamental Implausibility of Reactor Safety Assessments and the Implications for Nuclear Regulation. Regulation & Governance, 2020.
  5. Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana, and A. H. Nayyar. Nuclear Submarines in South Asia: New Risks and Dangers. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. 184–202.
  6. M. V. Ramana. Eyes Wide Shut: Problems with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems Proposal to Construct NuScale Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, September 2020.
  7. M. V. Ramana, A. H. Nayyar, and Michael Schoeppner. Nuclear High-level Waste Tank Explosions: Potential Causes and Impacts of a Hypothetical Accident at India’s Kalpakkam Reprocessing Plant. Science & Global Security, vol. 24, no. 3, 2016.
  8. M. V. Ramana. Second Life or Half-Life? The Contested Future of Nuclear Power and Its Potential Role in a Sustainable Energy Transition. In The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy, edited by Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Arunabha Ghosh, Florian Kern, and Michael T. Klare, 2016.
  9. M. V. Ramana. Technical and Social Problems of Nuclear Waste. WIREs Energy and Environment, 2018.
  10. Kumar Sundaram and M. V. Ramana. India and the Policy of No First Use of Nuclear Weapons. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018.
  11. M. V. Ramana and Zia Mian. The Courage to Challenge the Nuclear World Order. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 52, no. 48, 2 December 2017.
  12. M. V. Ramana and Suvrat Raju. Old Plans, Ongoing Handouts, New Spin: Deciphering the Nuclear Construction Announcement. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 52, no. 24, 17 June 2017.
  13. M. V. Ramana and Ashwin K. Seshadri. Negligence, Capture, and Dependence: Safety Regulation of the Design of India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor. Journal of Risk Research, vol. 18, no. 8, 2015.
  14. Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana. Asian War Machines. Critical Asian Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, 2014.
  15. M. V. Ramana and Ashwin Kumar. Nuclear Safety in India: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence. OUCIP Journal of International Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013.
  16. M. V. Ramana. Why India’s Electricity is Likely to Remain in Short Supply: The Economics of Nuclear Power. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 69, no. 6, 2013.
  17. M. V. Ramana and Ashwin Kumar. 'One in Infinity': Learning from Accidents and Lessons for Nuclear Safety in India. Journal of Risk Research, 2013.
  18. Alexander Glaser, Laura Berzak Hopkins, and M. V. Ramana. Resource Requirements and Proliferation Risks Associated with Small Modular Reactors. Nuclear Technology, vol. 184, October 2013.
  19. J. Y. Suchitra and M. V. Ramana. The Costs of Power: Plutonium and the Economics of India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor. International Journal of Global Energy Issues, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ M.V. Ramana University Profile, accessed May 25, 2024
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
  3. ↑ 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
  4. ↑ Chakrabarti, Dilip, and Sukhdev Saini. The Problem of the Sarasvati River and Notes on the Archaeological Geography of Haryana and Indian Punjab. Aryan Books International, 2009.
  5. ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
  6. ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002, p. 24. ​where she stated "Suddenly it became apparent that the “Indus” Civilization was a misnomer—although the Indus had played a major role in the development of the civilization, the “lost Saraswati” River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part to its prosperity. Many people today refer to this early state as the “Indus-Saraswati Civilization” and continuing references to the “Indus Civilization” should be an abbreviation in which the “Saraswati” is implied. There are some fifty sites known along the Indus whereas the Saraswati has almost 1,000. This is misleading figure because erosion and alluviation has between them destroyed or deeply buried the greater part of settlements in the Indus Valley itself, but there can be no doubt that the Saraswati system did yield a high proportion of the Indus people’s agricultural produce"
  7. ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
  8. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
  9. ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
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