The tilted hat was my madeleine. The Proustian chain of memories that it triggered took me back to my childhood. It was at a friend’s place where I saw another friend wearing a maroon felt hat, slightly tilted to one side on his bald pate. The style of wearing the hat brought back memories of
Sitting in my verandah, I was enjoying the freshness that rains, especially unseasonal ones, bring to the dust-ridden leaves on the trees in the garden. Suddenly, there was an explosion — the power cables going into my meter on the electricity pole on the road were on fire.
The bhajan had a very familiar tune but the words and the off-key singing made it difficult to recognise at first. Then it came like a flash — the tune was that of “Allah, yeh ada kaisi ha
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2 BATTLING INEQUALITY: The increasing number of students in colleges and universities has no meaning unless quality of education can be ensured. PTI
Shobhit Mahajan
Professor, Delhi University
When asked about their feedback on the laboratory class in nuclear physics that I had been conducting online for a semester, a student, let us just call him Vijay, spoke up enthusiastically about how happy he was with the lab. This was surprising since we were only conducting online demonstrations of the experiments from the lab and the students were not getting any hands-on training. When I asked him what he found good about the lab, he said he was most excited about being able to see how a physics lab looked like from the inside.