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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John Pucadyil
- Dec 12, 2022
- 5 min
The Adoor Conundrum
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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John Pucadyil
- Dec 12, 2022
- 4 min
Strategies for Climate Change Reversal
Climate change is caused by global warming as a result of trapping of the heat in the earth’s atmosphere caused by the absorption of...
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John Pucadyil
- Nov 20, 2022
- 5 min
The Hero's Journey
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 ...
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John Pucadyil
- Nov 14, 2022
- 6 min
Ideas: Emergence, Evolution, Exaptation
Picture courtesy: Miguel Á. Padriñán, Pexels Emergence is the appearance of collective behaviour. Behaviour of crowds differs from...
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John Pucadyil
- Nov 8, 2022
- 5 min
Is Social Media Controlling Our Minds?
(Based on a talk given to the Senior Citizens’ Forum, Kottayam) Internet open to the public was born in 1983. There is an interesting...
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John Pucadyil
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
On Matters Sartorial
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Oct 22, 2022
- 5 min
There is Something About LibraryThing
“Book-wrapt” is a word coined by Reid Byers, who wrote the authoritative book on home libraries,“The Private Library: The History of...
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John Pucadyil
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
Books and Magazines
As the eldest child, I had the run of the house. One great pleasure was rummaging through the collection of old books and magazines. Some...
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John Pucadyil
- Oct 14, 2022
- 5 min
Mahabali’s Fight to Reclaim Kerala
The Onam festival in Kerala, which came on September 12 this year, is the harvest festival of Kerala. It commemorates the mythical King...
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John Pucadyil
- Oct 13, 2022
- 4 min
Climate Change Fiction of the 21st Century
If there is one genre of fiction that has celebrated global disasters, it is science fiction. The villains are Artificial Intelligence...
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John Pucadyil
- Oct 10, 2022
- 4 min
The Dystopian Futures of Philip K Dick
The first movie I saw based on Philip Dick’s fiction is the “Minority Report”. This story happens in a future where crime is prevented...
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John Pucadyil
- Sep 25, 2022
- 5 min
Reflections on an Onam Feast
Covid’s unique contribution to our way of living is the proliferation of entities supplying cooked food at home. Thanks to one such...
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John Pucadyil
- Sep 17, 2022
- 6 min
A Lifetime of Reading
As the eldest child, I had the run of the house. One great pleasure was rummaging through the collection of old books and magazines....
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John Pucadyil
- Sep 8, 2022
- 5 min
Experiments with Plasmas
There are two ways of learning new things. In one, you read up everything (prior art in the patent patois) on the field before doing...
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John Pucadyil
- Sep 3, 2022
- 6 min
The IBIS Trilogy
Amitav Ghosh’s books are read extensively and are admired by both readers and critics. Though born in India, he is now a citizen of the...
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John Pucadyil
- Sep 3, 2022
- 5 min
Return on Investment
Mercy auntie was on the phone. Could I go over to her place in Cochin next Saturday? There was a function celebrating her 60th...
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John Pucadyil
- Aug 20, 2022
- 4 min
Innovation Cycles and Industrial Revolutions
Industrial growth is characterised by surges with an extended period, typically 40–60 years, driven by clusters of innovations. New...
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John Pucadyil
- Aug 12, 2022
- 5 min
Colours of Hydrogen
Hydrogen burns with a blue colour. This attribute has nothing to do with the appellation ‘Blue Hydrogen,’ which is the name for...
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