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Tale of Scientists

While we all celebrate the works of Indian scientists like J C Bose, C V Raman, S N Bose, Meghnad Saha and Homi Bhabha, we know very little of others who might not have acquired stellar reputation, but have contributed substantially, against all adversities, to the cause of science. Such scientists worked quietly, in Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore and elsewhere. Their work also deserves to be systematically recorded, assessed and contextualised

Extracting methane

The research is being headed by Jitendra Sangwai, professor (petroleum engineering), department of ocean engineering, IIT-Madras, who studies state of-art processes used to recover crude oil from offshore reservoirs in India, and includes research scholars Pawan Gupta and Vishnu C.

Not a wandering voice

ON April 1, as I was sipping my morning coffee, I heard someone imitating the call of the Indian cuckoo…