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...

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...

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

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

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...