More is not same PW Anderson in his classic paper titled “More is Different” (Anderson, P.W., More is Different, Science, Vol. 177, No. 4047, Aug. 4, 1972, pp. 393-396) stated “The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe”. He further [...]

At the time of India’s independence, a mere fourteen percent of the population was literate. Only one child out of three had been enrolled in primary school. India has come a long way from there. Today its effective literacy rate is 74.04% (Census 2011 data). It took 65 years for the Union Government, the states [...]

I consider 1990 as the earth-shattering year on planet Earth (no pun-intended). The world was about to change – permanently some may argue. One of the world’s two super powers, USSR and an established alternative form of governance, the communism, was about to lose traction. The cold war was about to end. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika [...]