The news came this week that the disaster movie “2018- Everyone is a Hero”, was made India’s official entry to the Academy Awards 2024 by...

The crystal structure of diamonds is unique. Each carbon atom in a diamond has a strong chemical bond with four others. This renders...

Every technological advance has changed the way we work. With the plough, the hunter-gatherers became farmers. The spinning jenny and the...

A gas discharge is one of the processes that create a plasma, a gas with a good fraction of molecules ionized. In the simplest case, it...

Several reviewers have hailed Tony Joseph’s “Early Indians” (Juggernaut Books, December 2018), as an important book. It adds indisputable...

Every Sunday afternoon, my family get together for a Zoom meeting. The participants, apart from my wife and myself are my two children,...

During the early days of the Plasma Physics Programme, the forerunner of the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), it became apparent that...

The invention of methods to produce non-equilibrium plasma at atmospheric pressure liberated plasma technology from the oppressive...

“The amazing thing about technology is that it is a great leveller; it recognizes no caste, creed or religion”: so said Mukesh Ambani in...

Courtesy: Pexels-czapp-arpad This is an appreciation of the book “The Nature of Technology” by Brian Arthur, a leading thinker on...

A message from Vinny Varghese, the Secretary of Mar Athanasius College Association, announcing the release of a postal cover in...

After a long period of stay in Ahmedabad, I decided to return and settle down in Kerala after my retirement from active service. We...

An Electrical Corona (From the eBook: Experiments with Plasmas) I had a conviction that a student working for his Ph D degree should earn...

Image by andreas N from Pixabay The realization that the “waste to energy” was more than a slogan came to me when, during a half year...

(Adapted from the e-Book: Experiments with Plasmas) Plasma Physics in India began in Allahabad in 1920 with Saha’s fundamental...

Image created by Bing My journalist friend, Shubhasree Desikan, made a perceptive comment on a blog I had posted on Medium, “A Hero’s...

FCIPT in Gandhinagar in 1997 I always had an entrepreneurial streak: finding technical and knowledge resources to solve problems. I have...

I heard about “The Covenant of Water” through a YouTube video on CBS Mornings where Oprah Winfrey announced the book as her 101st...

Indian authors writing in English come in two categories: Those who write for the world and those who write for India. Authors like...

For those keen on learning how India’s nuclear and space programmes were nucleated and developed, there is a new book. “Ploughshares and...

Tired of living in rented houses in Ahmedabad, I decided to build my own home in 1987. My preference was for an independent house with a...

“ഒരുദിനം ഒരു മൺ തരിയാ പാറ ച്ചെരുവിൽ നിന്നുമുതിർന്നു മറഞ്ഞു ….”.(A speck of sand broke off from the rock and fell away) So went a poem in...

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

I came into a little money in 2003 after spending close to a year at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in a senior...