Articles and Book Reviews

  1. Baazigar
  2. Board Examinations
  3. Subsidisation of Higher education
  4. A trip to Nainital
  5. Superstitions and “Rationality”
  6. Private Universities: a response
  7. Privatisation- a panacea?
  8. The new Property tax regime
  9. Reforms in Higher Education
  10. Survey of India
  11. Public Toilets
  12. Name dropping
  13. Wheels of Nature
  14. Year 2047:
  15. Travails of Indian Science
  16. Milk drinking Ganeshas: Scientific Temper why and what?
  17. The Union Budget: What is in store for Science
  18. Greening of the Vehicle industry
  19. Cybercensorship: The Internet and Censorship
  20. The new world view: Cosmology in the 21st century.
  21. Cosmology: a birds eye view
  22. Looking into the past by looking into the distant.
  23. Rapacity of a soulless city
  24. The Mysterious missing Mass
  25. E-governance? No Thank you.
  26. THE SUBSIDISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA: A POSSIBLE WAY OUT
  27. Soccer Ball molecules
  28. The magic of fuzziness
  29. Pharma factories of the future
  30. First impressions of God’s own country
  31. Superstar Hawking
  32. Holograms: Images of the Future
  33. IS THE IIT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION A LOTTERY?
  34. Indian Science Congress: do we need this jamboree?
  35. Bomb makers as heroes
  36. LASERS: THE GENIE FOR THE NEXT CENTURY
  37. Vedic Mathematics
  38. The story of dynamite
  39. When doctors play God:
  40. Water systems in the seven cities of Delhi
  41. National Science University: a critique
  42. Science writing in India: a non-existent entity.
  43. Quantum Computing: The Next Technological Revolution?
  44. Bowing to the great mind.
  45. Future Shock: Robots in the Next Millennium
  46. US Sanctions: whom do they worry?
  47. Particle Physics for laymen.
  48. Solar Cells
  49. ANTISCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM?
  50. The Mimic Minds
  51. The next millennia: what does technology hold in store?
  52. Y2K: what the hell is it?
  53. The Particle Zoo
  54. Science For Children
  55. Mystery Genres
  56. "The Making of the Indian Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State", by Itty Abraham,-.
  57. Childrens Science Books in hindi
  58. "From Fission to Fusion: The story of India’s Atomic Energy Programme", by M.R. Srinivasan.
  59. "Guns, Germs And Steel; a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years", by Jared Diamond,
  60. " Another Reason: Science And The Imagination of Modern India", by Gyan Prakash
  61. "Ignited Minds: Unleashing the power within India", by APJ Abdul Kalam
  62. "India 2020. A Vision for the New Millennium", by A.P.J. Kalam with Y.S. Rajan
  63. "Jagdish Chandra Bose: The first Modern Scientist", by Dilip M. Salwi
  64. "Mind, Matter and Mystery. Questions in science and philosophy", edited by Ranjit Nair
  65. " Science Is…: a source book of fascinating facts, projects and activities" by Susan V. Bosak.
  66. "Scholastic Science Dictionary" by Melvin Berger.
  67. "Sniper", by Shashi Warrier
  68. Review of " A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development", by Shiv Visvanathan,
  69. The Ethics of Human Cloning" by Leon R. Kass & James Q. Wilson
  70. The joy of Science: Review of a series of books by Arvind Gupta
  71. BHARAT KI CHHAP: A companion book to the film series, by C.  Shah S. Paranjape and S. Manorama
  72. "The Trouble With Science", by Robin Dunbar
  73. " The Lost World" by Michael Crichton
  74. Popular Science for Children: review of science books by NBT
  75. Encyclopaedia of Indian Scientists: From Ancient to Contemporary, by Anjana Chattopadhyay,
  76. The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists, by David, Ian, John and Margaret Millar
  77. The Web of Life: A New synthesis of Mind and Matter", by Fritjof Capra
  78. Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science. by S.  Chandrasekhar
  79. Thoughts of Turbulence
  80. Learning Computer Skills", Book 1,2,3, by T.P.S. Jassal and H.K. Jassal, Madhuban Educational Books, Rs. 24,28,30. ( 1995).
  81. "Philately for the Young", by Mathew Varki, Children’s Book Trust, Rs. 45. ( 1996).
  82. "Call of the Ocean", by T. Prakshirajan, Children’s Book Trust, Rs. 34. ( 1996).
  83. "Complexity: The Emerging Science at the edge of order and chaos", by M. Mitchell Waldrop
  84. "Beyond the crisis of European Sciences", by R. Sundara Rajan
  85. Review of science books from CSIR
  86. World Energy: Building a Sustainable Future, by Lee Schipper and others. Stockholm Environment Institute.
  87. "Feynman’s Lost Lecture: The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun", by David L. Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein
  88. Third World energy in terms of US policy
  89. "Fuzzy Thinking, The New Science of Fuzzy Logic", by Bart Kosko
  90. GAIA  :  The  Growth of an Idea, by Lawrence  E.  Joseph.
  91. The  Ghost in the Atom, Ed. by P.C.W. Davies  and  J.R.Brown
  92. Stephen  Hawking:  A Life in Science, by Michael White  and  John Gribbin.
  93. "In Gandhi’s Footsteps", by Rainer Horig
  94. India Invented: A Nation in the Making, by Arvind N. Das
  95. INNUMERACY  --  Mathematical Illiteracy and its  Consequences  by J.A. Paulos
  96. Seven Wonders of the Cosmos", by Jayant V. Narlikar
  97. Chandrasekhar and his Limit , by G.Venkatraman
  98. "The Business of Drugs", by Mary H. Cooper, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.
  99. No Ugly Scars: An Autobiography of a Surgeon", by Dr. B. Dayananda Rao, Booklinks Corporation
  100. "People's Health in People's Hands", by Dr. N.H. Antia and Kavita Bhatia, The Foundation for Research in Community Health
  101. "The Ills and Pills", by Clementeswar, Lily Publications
  102. "A Textbook of Parasitology", by S.S.Kelkar and Rohini S. Kelkar, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.
  103. "Elementary Pharmacology and Toxicology", by R.D. Budhiraja, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.
  104. Manual of Practical Pharmacy", by R.D. Budhiraja, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.
  105. "Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", by B.K.S. Iyengar, Indus.
  106. Challenge of AIDS , by Khorshed M Pavri, National Book Trust
  107. Cancer , by S.M.Bose, National Book Trust
  108. Endangered Animals of India and their conservation , by S.M.Nair, National Book Trust
  109. "The Game of Eclipses", by Nirupma Raghavan, N.B.T.
  110. "Trees: An Ecology book for Children on Asia/Pacific Trees", N.B.T.
  111. "Little Toys", by Arvind Gupta, N.B.T.
  112. " My Journey to the Magnetic North Pole", by Preety Sengupta, N.B.T.,
  113. "The Voyage of Trishna", by Brig. T.P.S. Chowdhury, N.B.T.
  114. "Chemical Elements in The New Age", by D.V. Jahagirdar, N.B.T.,
  115. "Narcotic Drugs", by Anil Aggrawal, N.B.T.
  116. " It Happened Tomorrow", edited by Bal Phondke, N.B.T
  117. "Space Today", by Mohan Sundara Rajan, N.B.T.,
  118. "You and Your Health", edited by V.N. Bhave, N.S. Deodhar and S.V. Bhave, N.B.T.,
  119. Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham", Edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina
  120. The  Many  Phases of Matter , by  G.  Venkataraman.  Universities Press
  121. "The Ways of the Weather", by P.A. Menon, National Book Trust,
  122. "Robots and Robotics", by M.R. Chidambara, National Book Trust
  123. " Wind Energy", by Suneel B. Athawale, National Book Trust,
  124. "Of Science and Scientists, An anthology of Anecdotes", by A.N. Kothare, S.S. Palsule, S.M. Parekh and M.P. Navalkar, National Book Trust
  125. "Preservation of Art Objects and Library Materials", by O.P. Agrawal, National Book Trust
  126. Predicting  The  Future, Edited by Leo Howe and Alan  Wain, Cambridge University Press
  127. "QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga.", by Silvan S. Schweber
  128. The Breakthrough, by G. Venkataraman, Universities Press,
  129. QED: The Jewel of Physics, by G. Venkataraman, Universities Press
  130. What is Reality , by G. Venkataraman, Universities Press,
  131. The Quantum Self, by Danah Zohar
  132. 1000 MEDICAL QUIZ, by CHITRA DATTA. RUPA & CO
  133. 1000 ASTRONOMY & SPACE QUIZ, by DILIP M. SALWI. RUPA & CO.
  134. RIDDLES IN YOUR TEACUP, by PARTHA GHOSE & DIPANKAR HOME. RUPA & CO.
  135. THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel. Rupa & Co.
  136. "Nonsense in Indian Science", Dilip M. Salwi
  137. Science  in 21st Century: A Glimpse of Science and Technology  by Dilip M. Salwi
  138. "Leaf Life", by Sirish Rao, Tara Publishing.
  139. " Trash: On Ragpicker Children and Recycling", by Gita Wolf, Anushka Ravishankar & Orijit Sen.
  140. "The Ethics of Human Cloning" by Leon R. Kass & James Q. Wilson, Scientia Press
  141. "The Third Culture" , by John Brockman, Simon & Schuster
  142. "Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s outrageous legacy", by Kip S. Thorne, Papermac
  143. "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution" by Paul Davies, Viking.
  144. "The End: Year 2287" by Arthur Richards, International  University Press
  145. "End" by Frank Close, Penguin Books,
  146. "UNIVERSE  DOWN TO EARTH" by Neil de Grasse Tyson, Columbia University Press
  147. Chandra, A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar, by K. C. Wali,  Penguin Books
  148. BETWEEN  QUANTUM AND COSMOS : STUDIES AND ESSAYS IN HONOR  OF J.A.WHEELER  EDITED  BY  W H ZUREK, A van  der MERWE  AND W.A. Miller