Can it help us understand the unknown universe? One day in the spring of 1543, a canon named Nicolaus Copernicus, lying on his sickbed, suddenly awoke from a coma that he had been put under because of a brain stroke. Resting beside him was the first copy of his magnum opus: De revolutionibus orbium […]
How NS Govinda Rao laid the foundation for civil engineering A photo of a moustachioed bespectacled man looks down from the wall of the office of the Department of Civil Engineering at IISc. A few steps further, in the Chairperson’s office, another portrait watches on from above the door. It is fitting that NS […]
