At present, I work (as an Associate Professor in Astrophysics & Theoretical Physics) at Harish Chandra Research Institute (formerly known as the Mehta Research Institute), India. Since my Ph.D. days, I have visited various research institutes and Universities in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, Russia, Israel, Taiwan, Thailand and Bangladesh. Details of my academic activities are described in my research and vitae page. I also visited Cambodia and Thailand to see the magnificent 'Angkor Wat' in Cambodia and the famous Bridge on the river Kwai at Kanchanaburi, Thailand. I will put the photographs on net soon.

Various aspects of the dynamical interaction between modern science and society appears very exciting to me and I am involved in studying the Societal Impact of the Internet. I wrote a paper titled The Impact of Net Culture on Mainstream Societies: a Global Analysis at which you can have a look if you are interested. Please note that the paper was written in early 1998, so the data set provided in that paper (along with some technical informations presented there) have been dramatically changed in last three year...but what I believe that the philosophical and sociological perspectives has not been changed and still a major part of that article may be quite relevant.

Though I am supposed to an Astronomer (huh :-)), more than half of my time I spend by reading about literature, philosophy, sociology and politics. Classical music, poetry and good movies give me proper boost to pursue Physics.(There are other sources of boosting also, but of course those are not to be discussed in public! ) If you are interested, you can surf some of the web sites of my interest .But before that, be sure that your viewpoint matches (at least upto some extent ) with my philosophy of life! Otherwise it may be a boring ride for you.

You may also have a look at some of the photographs I have taken, please click here .