Pamba River has strongly influenced the socio-cultural and religious life of Kerala. It is venerated and often called Southern Ganga. It...

Picture Courtesy Pixabay Nobody knew the exact time when the tide turned. I am talking about what came later to be known as the “War of...

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The river, in reality, a canal dug up to connect the Meenachil River to the boat jetty at Kacherikadavu, flows near my ancestral house in...

As you live your life, you come across people who contribute in improving your skillsets, influencing your worldview and changing your...

I am reading Harish Mehta’s book ‘The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India’s IT Revolution’. The book describes how the software...

In 1982, the Department of Science & Technology (DST), realizing the importance of starting a research programme in Plasma Physics and...

Time flies, flows, events happen, life goes on with interminable and insufferable regularity all around you while you live in a stupor....

Indigo’s flight from Pune to Kochi lands at Kochi at an ungodly hour, almost close to midnight. My reliable driver was at the airport and...

St Mark’s Basilica, Venice The genius of the Gothic period was the invention of the pointed arch and the corresponding ribbed vault to...

As a young boy studying at the CMS College High School in the Northwest part of the Kottayam town, I and my school friends would go on...

I took part in a meeting to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a centre I had set up in the Institute for Plasma Research to develop and...

You may recall an old commercial about Pepsi, where you win if a number on the crown of the Pepsi bottle gets picked up in a lottery. The...

In the late eighties, while struggling with erecting and commissioning ADITYA, India’s first tokamak, I found relaxation in thinking...

The enforced seclusion caused by COVID-19 nudged me to experiment with blogging. I had a dormant blogspot.com account, and I started...

Song of the Stray Electron I wrote the following poem in 1989 we commissioned the ADITYA tokamak which produces plasmas at temperatures...

It was Unni who brought the story of the mysterious gift of Adoor Srikantan to look into the future using a compilation created by...

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Books take me into a world of my own. I have friends with whom I have forged close bonds while following their lives and adventures. I ...

Picture courtesy: Miguel Á. Padriñán, Pexels Emergence is the appearance of collective behaviour. Behaviour of crowds differs from...

(Based on a talk given to the Senior Citizens’ Forum, Kottayam) Internet open to the public was born in 1983. There is an interesting...

One of my childhood memories is of me and my two brothers walking to the school dressed in the sartorial splendour of what was called a...

“Book-wrapt” is a word coined by Reid Byers, who wrote the authoritative book on home libraries,“The Private Library: The History of...