“The Covenant of Water”: An Appreciation
I heard about “The Covenant of Water” through a YouTube video on CBS Mornings where Oprah Winfrey announced the book as her 101st...
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John Pucadyil
- May 24
- 5 min
The House on the Hailey Road
Indian authors writing in English come in two categories: Those who write for the world and those who write for India. Authors like...
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John Pucadyil
- May 17
- 6 min
Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Quest
For those keen on learning how India’s nuclear and space programmes were nucleated and developed, there is a new book. “Ploughshares and...
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John Pucadyil
- May 10
- 4 min
Voices from my garden
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...
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John Pucadyil
- May 7
- 5 min
Ventures into Verse
“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...
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John Pucadyil
- May 5
- 5 min
Onboard Fuel Decarbonization with Plasma Reformers
International Energy Agency’s projection in the World Energy Outlook 2022 [1] shows that even by 2050, half of the total energy supply...
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John Pucadyil
- Apr 25
- 5 min
My Investment Journey
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Apr 11
- 4 min
A Train to Pamba
Pamba River has strongly influenced the socio-cultural and religious life of Kerala. It is venerated and often called Southern Ganga. It...
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John Pucadyil
- Apr 11
- 5 min
War of the Words
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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John Pucadyil
- Mar 31
- 4 min
Thus Spake Rebecca
It was exasperating to have a conversation with Rebecca. She had this strange habit of saying something obscure whenever she wanted....
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 26
- 5 min
Prescience in Fiction
While foresight is the ability to foresee the future, prescience is the foreknowledge of events. Literature often exhibits surprising...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 14
- 5 min
Memories of the House by the River
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 8
- 5 min
Teachers and Mentors
As you live your life, you come across people who contribute in improving your skillsets, influencing your worldview and changing your...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 7
- 6 min
India's Software Services Industry: The Beginnings
I am reading Harish Mehta’s book ‘The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India’s IT Revolution’. The book describes how the software...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 20
- 5 min
The Institute for Plasma Research Campus at Bhat
In 1982, the Department of Science & Technology (DST), realizing the importance of starting a research programme in Plasma Physics and...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 20
- 6 min
The Lost Beaches of Fort Kochi
Time flies, flows, events happen, life goes on with interminable and insufferable regularity all around you while you live in a stupor....
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 9
- 5 min
Christmas in 'God's Own Country'
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 4
- 5 min
Sanctuaries in Stone
St Mark’s Basilica, Venice The genius of the Gothic period was the invention of the pointed arch and the corresponding ribbed vault to...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 23
- 6 min
A Small Town in Kerala
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Plasma Technology for Space Missions
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Under the Painted Vault
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Dec 26, 2022
- 5 min
Experiments with Electron Plasmas
In the late eighties, while struggling with erecting and commissioning ADITYA, India’s first tokamak, I found relaxation in thinking...
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John Pucadyil
- Dec 26, 2022
- 6 min
A Year on Medium
The enforced seclusion caused by COVID-19 nudged me to experiment with blogging. I had a dormant blogspot.com account, and I started...
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John Pucadyil
- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
Two Tokamak Poems
Song of the Stray Electron I wrote the following poem in 1989 we commissioned the ADITYA tokamak which produces plasmas at temperatures...
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