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

John Pucadyil
Jul 28, 20235 min read


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

John Pucadyil
Jul 18, 20235 min read


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

John Pucadyil
Jul 7, 20235 min read


Waste to Energy Technology in the Indian Context
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...

John Pucadyil
Jul 7, 20235 min read


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

John Pucadyil
Jun 24, 20236 min read


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

John Pucadyil
Jun 17, 20234 min read


Lessons from Setting up a Plasma Technology Diffusion Centre
FCIPT in Gandhinagar in 1997 I always had an entrepreneurial streak: finding technical and knowledge resources to solve problems. I have...

John Pucadyil
Jun 6, 20236 min read


“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...

John Pucadyil
May 30, 20236 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
May 24, 20235 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
May 17, 20236 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
May 10, 20234 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
May 7, 20235 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
May 5, 20235 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
Apr 25, 20235 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
Apr 11, 20234 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
Apr 11, 20235 min read


Thus Spake Rebecca
It was exasperating to have a conversation with Rebecca. She had this strange habit of saying something obscure whenever she wanted....

John Pucadyil
Mar 31, 20234 min read


Prescience in Fiction
While foresight is the ability to foresee the future, prescience is the foreknowledge of events. Literature often exhibits surprising...

John Pucadyil
Mar 26, 20235 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
Mar 14, 20235 min read


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

John Pucadyil
Mar 8, 20235 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
Mar 7, 20236 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
Feb 20, 20235 min read


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....

John Pucadyil
Feb 20, 20236 min read


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...

John Pucadyil
Feb 9, 20235 min read
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