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...

“The first sounds I ever heard were those of falling rain. It was tropical, the kind that seems to possess a metallic weight and mass,...

Tired of living in rented houses in Ahmedabad, I decided to build a place of my own in 1987. Sterling City Development Co had acquired...

My ancestral house in Karapuzha, a suburb of the Kottayam town, was built about 150 years ago by my great grandfather. It stands by a...

Precious Ramotswe, private detective, is one of the most colourful fictional characters to have come out of Africa, Botswana to be...

The desert planet Arrakis, also called Dune, is created by the fervid imagination of Frank Herbert. Set more than twenty-thousand years...

There was a time when Plasma Physics was all about the behaviour of plasmas at millions of degrees of temperature trapped in magnetic...

I have spent a good part of my professional life developing commercially and strategically useful applications based on Plasma Physics....

I saw the movie “Social Network” in the PVR multiplex in Ahmedabad in 2010. The movie was about the founding of one of the defining...

My wife is sold on YouTube videos posted by soft-voiced young girls gushing with enthusiasm, giving gratuitous advice on solving...

“The amazing thing about technology is that it is a great leveller; it recognizes no caste, creed or religion”: so said Mukesh Ambani...

Recently, my Samsung music system broke down and I was left with a modest collection of music VCDs and DVDs accumulated in the 80s....

I became aware of the shadowy presence of George Smiley in the Regal Theatre in Connaught Place in the late seventies in one of my...

“Scientists have come tantalizingly close to reproducing the power of the sun — albeit only in a speck of hydrogen for a fraction of a...