1. Editorial

   • N. Mukunda

   Departments Pages: 1 - 1

2. The Turing test

   • Vijay Chandru

   Departments Pages: 2 - 2

3. The Turing machine

   • P. S. Thiagarajan

   Departments Pages: 3 - 4

4. Science smiles

   • R. K. Laxman

   Departments Pages: 5 - 5

5. Nonlinearity, conservation law and shocks

   • Phoolan Prasad

   Series Article Pages: 8 - 19

6. What can the answer be?

   • V. Balakrishnan

   Series Article Pages: 20 - 26

7. The normal distribution

   • S. Ramasubramanian

   Series Article Pages: 27 - 37

8. Know your chromosomes

   • Vani Brahmachari

   Series Article Pages: 38 - 47

9. Know your personal computer

   • S. K. Ghoshal

   Series Article Pages: 48 - 54

10. On shapes of algebraic loci

    • Subhashis Nag

    General Article Pages: 55 - 63

11. Silica from ash

    • Davinder Mittal

    General Article Pages: 64 - 66

12. Nature watch

    • Vidya R. Athreya

    Feature Article Pages: 67 - 74

13. Pitfalls in elementary physics

    • Arvind Kumar

    Departments Pages: 75 - 81

14. Small is beautiful, in Chemistry also

    • R. Gopalan

    Departments Pages: 82 - 85

15. How many functional molecules ?

    • Milind Watve

    Departments Pages: 86 - 87

16. Organic reaction mechanisms

    • J. Chandrasekhar
    • Uday Maitra

    Departments Pages: 87 - 88

17. Deep Blue beats Kasparov in a rematch

    • K. S. R. Anjaneyulu

    Research News Pages: 89 - 90

18. Book review

    • Shailesh Deshpande
    • Milind Watve
    • B. J. Venkatachala

    BookReview Pages: 91 - 94

19. Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgments Pages: 95 - 95

20. Books received

    Announcement Pages: 95 - 95

21. Information and announcements

    Announcement Pages: 96 - 96