Professor Roddam Narasimha shows a model of the LCA to former PM PV Narasimha Rao in 1985. (Photo: IISC)
BENGALURU: His long trail of contributions to Indian science, lasting more than five decades, have helped several objects take flight and breach barriers but Professor Roddam Narasimha himself remained grounded. Whie his mind constantly decoded several historical developments his eyes were always firmly set on futuristic technologies and he worked relentlessly on programmes that would benefit generations after him.
One of India’s foremost aerospace and fundamental science scientists, Roddam became the phenomenon he was because he never let his personal excellence consume him, as testimonies by multiple stalwarts of Indian science reiterate.