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...

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...

Literature has produced admirable heroines. They have strong personalities and are quite complex in their character. They make...

One of the weirdest fictional heroes I have come across is Jack Reacher. The Jack Reacher books by Lee Child, 24 of them, are...

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,...

The Facilit ation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies, Gandhinagar, IndiaIn the early 1990s, during the period of a lull following...

In the early 1990s, during the period of a lull following the commissioning of the Indian Tokamak “ADITYA” at the Institute for Plasma ...

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...

“Why I Blog”, Andrew Sullivan (1) writes that ‘as blogging evolves as a literary form, it generates a new and quintessentially...

In “Why I Blog”, Andrew Sullivan (1) writes that ‘as blogging evolves as a literary form, it generates a new and quintessentially...

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

The standing joke in thermonuclear fusion research has been that the power from fusion was just around the corner; albeit a perpetually...

The standing joke in thermonuclear fusion research has been that the power from fusion was just around the corner; albeit a perpetually...

In the book “Denial of Death”, which won a Pulitzer Prize, Anthropologist Ernest Becker says: “The knowledge of death is reflective and...

In the book “Denial of Death”, which won a Pulitzer Prize, Anthropologist Ernest Becker says: “The knowledge of death is reflective and...

In 1984, we moved to the new campus of the Plasma Physics Programme established by the Department of Science and Technology, Government...

From the author’s collectionIn 2008, my son Joseph moved to Switzerland to take up an assignment near Zurich. We first visited his...

My mother used to collect the India ink sketches I made, copying pictures of film stars from the Screen magazine. Meenakumari and Dilip...

In 2011, I wrote a little poem called the “Past”, which went like this: The past, some say, is crystallized future that has been cast in...

Fusion reactions make the stars shine and give the hydrogen bomb its terrible destructive power. Fusion research started in the 1950s...

I am an inveterate accumulator of junk, much to the distress of my family! In celebrating that, I wrote the following poem: Have you ever...

The businessman Ratan Tata once said that it was a desire to develop an inexpensive family car for India’s middle class, which...

I belong to the Syrian Christian faith. My great-great-grandfather, Joseph Ittoop, known popularly as Pucadyil Ittoop Writer, wrote the...

Recollections on the genesis and birth of a book on the science, technology, practice and the commercial aspects of plasma-enabled...