The Edge of Suspense
Elizabeth George has written forty-four books, of which twenty are novels of criminal and psychological suspense featuring Scotland...
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John Pucadyil
- Apr 9, 2022
- 4 min
Michael Corleone in Mattancherry
An Appreciation of the Malayalam Film “Bheeshmaparvam” In “Bheeshmaparvam,” Amal Neerad has created a brilliant film about family,...
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John Pucadyil
- Apr 2, 2022
- 6 min
Development of Plasma Mediated Waste Pyrolysis Technology
An international scandal involving a vast intra-European traffic in medical waste originating from France and culminating in eventual ...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 29, 2022
- 5 min
The Pleasures of Collecting Books
In Arthur Clarke’s classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowman is transported through the Stargate to a chamber decorated like a hotel...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
The Tides in Us
Recent research identifies where humans appeared first in the African continent. The studies suggest that climate change pushed off the...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 19, 2022
- 5 min
Plasma Processing for Carbon Neutral Fuels
Plasma Processing exploits the properties of the ionised state of matter for material synthesis and transformation through physical and...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 15, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 12, 2022
- 4 min
Thoughts on the Innovation Process
While living in Bopal, a suburb of Ahmedabad, I had to take a long journey, almost an hour, from my home to Gandhinagar, where I had...
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John Pucadyil
- Mar 5, 2022
- 5 min
Words and Images
I have always had a fascination for words and the images they evoke. I like poetry because of the images created by clever and careful...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 26, 2022
- 4 min
A Cavalcade of Heroines
Literature has produced admirable heroines. They have strong personalities and are quite complex in their character. They make...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 19, 2022
- 5 min
A Man Called Reacher
One of the weirdest fictional heroes I have come across is Jack Reacher. The Jack Reacher books by Lee Child, 24 of them, are...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 15, 2022
- 5 min
On Writing Books
I was born in Kottayam, and lived my early life there. It is a small, prosperous town in the southern part of Kerala, which, in 1989,...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 11, 2022
- 5 min
Commercializing Plasma-Process Technologies: The Indian Experience.
The Facilit ation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies, Gandhinagar, IndiaIn the early 1990s, during the period of a lull following...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 11, 2022
- 5 min
Commercializing Plasma-Process Technologies: The Indian Experience.
In the early 1990s, during the period of a lull following the commissioning of the Indian Tokamak “ADITYA” at the Institute for Plasma ...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 9, 2022
- 5 min
Manek Chowk and Malls: Shopping in Ahmedabad
When we came to Ahmedabad in 1972, one of the monthly rituals was to go to Manek Chowk and buy groceries for the month. Sometimes this...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
My Experiments with Blogging
“Why I Blog”, Andrew Sullivan (1) writes that ‘as blogging evolves as a literary form, it generates a new and quintessentially...
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John Pucadyil
- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
My Experiments with Blogging
In “Why I Blog”, Andrew Sullivan (1) writes that ‘as blogging evolves as a literary form, it generates a new and quintessentially...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 30, 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
- Jan 28, 2022
- 5 min
The Explosion of the Fusion Startups
The standing joke in thermonuclear fusion research has been that the power from fusion was just around the corner; albeit a perpetually...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 15, 2022
- 5 min
The Explosion of the Fusion Startups
The standing joke in thermonuclear fusion research has been that the power from fusion was just around the corner; albeit a perpetually...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 15, 2022
- 5 min
Two Versions of the Apocalypse
In the book “Denial of Death”, which won a Pulitzer Prize, Anthropologist Ernest Becker says: “The knowledge of death is reflective and...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 15, 2022
- 5 min
Two Versions of the Apocalypse
In the book “Denial of Death”, which won a Pulitzer Prize, Anthropologist Ernest Becker says: “The knowledge of death is reflective and...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 12, 2022
- 5 min
Digital Self: Apps and the Man
In 1984, we moved to the new campus of the Plasma Physics Programme established by the Department of Science and Technology, Government...
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John Pucadyil
- Jan 7, 2022
- 4 min
The Black Madonna at Einsiedeln
From the author’s collectionIn 2008, my son Joseph moved to Switzerland to take up an assignment near Zurich. We first visited his...
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