Edge of physics

That is the title of a new book by Anil Ananthaswamy, also class of 1985, IITM. Life was complicated as my classmates and I spent five years at IITM and are also the class of 1985, but not Anil. You may be wondering if we all failed a year, but no. We were the last 5 year batch, while Anil and his classmates were the first 4 year batch. But I digress. Today he will give a talk at CHEP on his adventures that resulted in this book. Anil also writes a blog. You can find information on the book here and the blog is here. In one of the articles on the blog, which you can find here, he talks of one of Hawking's many bets, which also features work of my thesis advisor Qaisar Shafi.

Reflections on Haiti, links

Reflections of Fidel Castro Ruz on Haiti from Granma.

An article by Regine Chassagne from The Guardian.

As I Please: Fond memories of a no longer popular writer

As I Please: Fond memories of a no longer popular writer

Man made disasters -- cold deaths in Delhi

After writing about luckless Haiti, I guess one should also think about our own luckless compatriots, see, e.g. this.

"Why does the Anglophone Indian want to be a Novelist?" Check this out.

The title of this post is that of an editorial at the new web-site. Check it out.

Luckless Haiti

If there is a luckless country in the world, it must be Haiti.

Fortunately, through Facebook we were able to contact our old friend Dominique Toublan whose wife Farah is from Haiti, and checked that almost all their friends and relatives are alright. One aunt was still unaccounted for.

My article on Barack Obama's Nobel Prize

Here is the link to my article on Barack Obama's Nobel Prize published on the Lok Raj Sangathan web-site.