there, those many countless thousands of years ago, across the field loomed a massive, war-ready chariot on which stood king ravan armed with weapons and sheaths and shields followed by a wellequipped army eager to unleash its demonic power. on other side of the field stood two young and fearless men ram, and laxman backed by a strange army of soldiers whose identity could shock anyone out of wits. though he was confident of his own warfaring skills, laxman asked his brother ram, in effect, how
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Roddam Narasimha
THE LAST major honour bestowed on Roddam Narasimha was a lifetime achievement award from Nature magazine in 2019 for ‘Mentoring in Science’. Some of his students, outstanding scientists themselves, say Narasimha, one of the doyens of Indian science who passed away in Bengaluru on Monday at the age of 87, was as great a teacher and mentor as an accomplished scientist.
“He was almost the perfect guru, deeply steeped in the Indian tradition. I could sense that in the very first lecture I attended from him at the Indian Institute of Science. He had already done some formidable scientific work during his stay at Caltech in the US by then. He had great insight into the subject, but the way he interacted with the students is something that left a lasting impression on us. We could immediately see that we were dealing with a very different kind of a person, very different teacher, and