Tag: Sunday Special
The scientific career of Jayant Narlikar
Any account of the number of academic degrees and medals won, positions held and Honours and Fellowships received from prestigious Educational Institutions,...
The Folklore of Mathematics
There are several anecdotes concerning mathematicians, which because of their affectionate acceptance by people of the past generations as well as the...
A Nonpareil Police Officer
P.S. Ramamohan Rao's "MEMOIR" is packed with facts relating to his brilliant academic record and his distinguished career as a Police Officer....
Latest trends in ways to save the Heart
Light breaks where no sun shines
where no sea runs the waters of the heart
On Genes and Clones
The most wonderful mystery of life may well be the means by which it created so much diversity from-so little physical matter...
On National Integration and the Civil Services
When the All India Services were constituted/restructured to suit the Nation’s needs following independence (they had been known as the Indian Civil...
The Mormons of Utah
During one of my visits to the United States I visited Salt Lake City the capital of Utah and spent three days...
Everyone has a favourite city in the world
Everyone has a favourite city in the world. No doubt the city where one was born, spent one’s childhood, and gone to...
The risks from Anaesthesia
There is one branch of medical science (anaesthesiology) whose contribution to the treatment of the sick and the infirm is no less...
Leave Shakespeare Alone
Nobel Laureate Peter Medawar has observed in his book The Limits of Science’ that ‘in terms of the fulfilment of declared intentions...