What gives desserts their texture? Or what makes paints durable? For Dr Ashish Lele, the answers lie at the microscopic level. At the National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, he has been exploring how molecular structures influence the properties of soft materials. ...
A novelist, poet, literary critic and musician - Amit Chaudhari is a man who defies labels. He was 13 when his poems were first published but strangely he was a shy poet. "I for one was not cool at all. I hated school and was miserable there but I soon discovered that this was one of the few things that gave me pleasure," he says. At age 24, he wrote...