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...

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...

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...

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...

The Onam festival in Kerala, which came on September 12 this year, is the harvest festival of Kerala. It commemorates the mythical King...

If there is one genre of fiction that has celebrated global disasters, it is science fiction. The villains are Artificial Intelligence...

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...

Covid’s unique contribution to our way of living is the proliferation of entities supplying cooked food at home. Thanks to one such...

As the eldest child, I had the run of the house. One great pleasure was rummaging through the collection of old books and magazines....

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...

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...

Mercy auntie was on the phone. Could I go over to her place in Cochin next Saturday? There was a function celebrating her 60th...

Industrial growth is characterised by surges with an extended period, typically 40–60 years, driven by clusters of innovations. New...

Hydrogen burns with a blue colour. This attribute has nothing to do with the appellation ‘Blue Hydrogen,’ which is the name for...

I met Predhiman Kaw for the first time in 1972 when I visited the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) to give a talk on my work on plasma...

John Kuriakose is the Managing Director of DentCare Dental Lab, a company focusing on fabricating dental prostheses. DentCare has...