1. Editorial

   • T. V. Ramakrishnan

   Departments Pages: 1 - 3

2. Origin (?) of the Universe

   • Jayant V. Narlikar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 6 - 11

3. What can the answer be?

   • V. Balakrishnan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 12 - 19

4. The Chandrasekhar limit

   • G. Srinivasan
   • R. Nityananda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 20 - 22

5. Electrons in condensed matter

   • T. V. Ramakrishnan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 38

6. Gems: Objects of aesthetic beauty and scientific curiosity

   • A. K. Ramdas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 41

7. Homi Bhabha and Cosmic Ray research in India

   • B. V. Sreekantan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 51

8. Schrödinger’s uncertainty principle?

   • Rajaram Nityananda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 52 - 54

9. J J Thomson — A ‘thinking’ experimentalist

   • Rohini Godbole

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 57

10. Wegener and his Theory of continental drift

    • Ramesh Chander

    OriginalPaper Pages: 58 - 75

11. Dark matter

    • Bikram Phookun
    • Biman Nath

    OriginalPaper Pages: 76 - 82

12. Jagadis Chandra Bose and his pionearing research on microwave

    • C. George Verghese
    • George C. Verghese

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 85

13. Search for a final theory of matter

    • Ashoke Sen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 86 - 95

14. Einstein and the special theory of relativity

    • Supurna Sinha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 96 - 105

15. Pollen grains, random walks and einstein

    • Sriram Ramaswamy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 106 - 124

16. The story of the photon

    • N. Mukunda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 141

17. Bose-Einstein condensation

    • R. Nityananda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 142 - 147

18. Einstein as armchair detective: The case of stimulated radiation

    • Vasant Natarajan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 148 - 162

19. Thermal lonistion and the Saha equation!

    • Rajaram Nityananda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 163

20. Discovery of parity violation

    • Amit Roy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 164 - 175

21. Ludwig Bltzmann and entropy

    • Sriram Ramaswamy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 176 - 178

22. The Case of missing solar neutrinos with their split personalities

    • S. M. Chitre

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 192

23. Dirac’s conception of the magnetic monopole, and its modern avatars

    • Sunil Mukhi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 202

24. Magnetic resonance imaging: Window to a watery world

    • Kavita Dorai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 216

25. Vikram A Sarabhai

    • Mrinalini Sarabhai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 219

26. And Gamow said, let there be a hot universe

    • Somak Raychaudhury

    OriginalPaper Pages: 220 - 231

27. The crisis of science

    • Satyendra Nath Bose

    OriginalPaper Pages: 232 - 241

28. The scientific outlook

    • C. V. Raman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 242 - 245

29. Einstein’s last dream: The space — time unification of fundamental forces

    • Abdus Salam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 246 - 253