My way of painting is to spread paint over the entire canvas in patches reflecting the general layout I want to create and then apply the...

It was fascinating to watch Shamika Ravi, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council member, correlate satellite imagery of construction...

I felt the shadowy presence of George Smiley in the Regal Theatre in New Delhi's Connaught Place in the late seventies in one of my...

The unfinished Skywalk in Kottayam Kottayam, a small town in Kerala has done exceptionally well in many metrics of human development....

Altruism is an English word meaning selfless service to others without expecting anything in return. This has no simple equivalent in...

The recent publicity around Alien: Romulus reminded me of the fascination I had as a youth with the alien and horrifying world created...

I was recently invited to give the Kuriakose Mar Gregorios Memorial Lecture at a college in Pampady, a small town near Kottayam. I...

The World in Data In the realm of existential threats, humanity has introspected on its fragility and the potential for self-destruction....

“Naalumanikaat” — Place of the 4 o’clock Breeze Life took a full circle when I moved back to Kottayam after sixty years. I was born here...

I, along with my wife, started watching “Laapataa Ladies”, the celluloid saga of lost brides, on Netflix. I was sceptical about the...

Burning of crop residue is prevalent in North India although banned by the National Green Tribunal. Wheat stubble burning is a recent...

Image courtesy of: Robert A Hefner III (Age of Energy Gases, 2007) The earliest discovered wood fire goes back to 75,000 years ago in a...

This is the story of a book, a rare illuminated manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah. The book was born in Northern Spain in the...

“Wanted” is an Australian television series that premiered in 2016 and quickly gained attention for its gripping storyline and dynamic...

International Energy Agency’s projection in the World Energy Outlook 2022 [1] shows that even by 2050, half of the total energy supply...

Innovation has been defined as the successful development of creative ideas. For innovation to happen, creative ideas that have economic...

Master sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman’s Yakshi at Malampuzha dam My childhood had many influences which stoked my imagination and creativity....

In the early days of my journey in Experimental Plasma Physics, a persistent problem was the non-availability of critical laboratory...

I decided to re-read my Kindle collection of the Millennium Series after a conversation with my son, Thomas, who was all praise for the...

This is the time when every thinking person begins to be apprehensive about what is in store in the coming year while retaining some...

Vaclav Smil is a great intellect of our times finding patterns in our technological and societal evolution. He conducts interdisciplinary...

For a theoretical plasma physicist, plasma is an abstraction without a persona. However, for an experimentalist, each plasma has an...

I spent close to eight years at Aligarh from 1964 to 1972, first as a PhD student and later as a lecturer in the Physics Department. My...

We celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of Prof Rais Ahmed, the former head of the Physics Department, Aligarh Muslim University and...