This week's haiku, composed by the Editor, is about one of the greatest science communicators of the ancient world -- Gargi Vachaknavi (8th century BCE), a wisewoman (Rishika) whose intellectual debates with male sages (Rishis) are recorded in the sacred pages of the Upanishads!
The STEM star Gargi
Debated the great sages.
A true Rishika!
In this digital image created by the Editor, we see Gargi the sage at a lectern in a Hindu temple, reading from the
Upanishads. When the Greek philosopher Pythagoras was studying in India, he probably encountered Rishikas like Gargi, and perhaps this is why he included women among the leading members of his philosophical community in Croton, Italy.
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