Thank you for bringing back some great memories. We were in school - maybe 8th or 9th and IUCAA through some program offered 2 students from my school some summer program there. I applied but my school sent some other students. In my frustration, I looked up your mailing address and sent you a letter expressing my interest in the program and desire to get to see IUCAA. I didn’t expect much to happen.
Lo and behold, a few days later, I get a reply from Dr. Jayant Narlikar himself!! What excitement! I was thrilled to have received official mail from him. To me, it was as if Amitabh Bacchan had replied to a fan… and I was a fan (still am). While you couldn’t let me into the program, you were generous and offered a visit to IUCAA. I did visit, but it was later (I don’t remember what the occasion was). It was an amazing experience. A couple of years after THAT I had the opportunity to visit again, where one of the students there gave us some lessons on the basics of quantum physics and helped us learn the basics of quantum computing theory. I remember many hours spent in the library there (such a beautiful and well equipped place)… but what struck me the most was the desire to genuinely give students a taste of science. What was possible. Make us excited about science!
Thanks for all of that. But to you and the wonderful people at IUCAA.
Oh and I forgot, the lectures at IUCAA when school students were allowed to attend!! Again, stuff that got us all super excited about science. Thanks again for such great programs
Thank you for bringing back some great memories. We were in school - maybe 8th or 9th and IUCAA through some program offered 2 students from my school some summer program there. I applied but my school sent some other students. In my frustration, I looked up your mailing address and sent you a letter expressing my interest in the program and desire to get to see IUCAA. I didn’t expect much to happen.
Lo and behold, a few days later, I get a reply from Dr. Jayant Narlikar himself!! What excitement! I was thrilled to have received official mail from him. To me, it was as if Amitabh Bacchan had replied to a fan… and I was a fan (still am). While you couldn’t let me into the program, you were generous and offered a visit to IUCAA. I did visit, but it was later (I don’t remember what the occasion was). It was an amazing experience. A couple of years after THAT I had the opportunity to visit again, where one of the students there gave us some lessons on the basics of quantum physics and helped us learn the basics of quantum computing theory. I remember many hours spent in the library there (such a beautiful and well equipped place)… but what struck me the most was the desire to genuinely give students a taste of science. What was possible. Make us excited about science!
Thanks for all of that. But to you and the wonderful people at IUCAA.
Oh and I forgot, the lectures at IUCAA when school students were allowed to attend!! Again, stuff that got us all super excited about science. Thanks again for such great programs
wonderful insights.
Thank you professor.
Looking forward for the next blog
Interesting history
superb