Over the past 45 years, Gautam R Desiraju has made contributions to science that have put him in a rarified international plane. A pioneer in crystal engineering, Desiraju has been at the vanguard of the field he helped create, though his interests have extended well beyond his scientific area to philosophy, history, geopolitics, and even […]
A renowned metallurgist on his relationship with geometry, Japan, and more My work has involved studying the geometries of materials such as crystals, glasses, twin boundaries, grain boundaries, and quasicrystals. Quasicrystals open new windows into the architecture of solids. Their beauty continues to attract me and I have worked on them for close to […]
Malgudi, RK Narayan’s idyllic setting for his stories, may have been inspired by the Mysore of a bygone era, but its name is a felicitous blend of two of Bangalore’s oldest suburbs – Malleswaram and Basavangudi. Even in the 1970s, when I first arrived in the city, these areas retained an old-worldly charm. Few could […]
