1991 : People behind "2001 Science Today"

An image from July 1991 issue ( Silver Jubilee Special).

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards, 1963 and 1964

Hi all,
You must aready be knowing that the SS Bhatnagar awards for the year 2006 has been announced recently. How about a bit of history ?

During July 1966, ten Scientists were honoured with SSB Awards, the highest honour in our country for Scientific Research. The relevant pages, showing the awardees of 1963 and 1964 are given above.


Prasanna.

First issue of ST

Here are a few pictures showing the early days' look and contents ( as given in 1991 Special issue ).
{  I do not have this issue with me. My collection starts with Sept 1966.  Anyone  having the 1966 July and August  issues ???? }

Prasanna

Science Fiction - 1990 & 1991

Dec-89           Time and Again                                  Arunava Sinha
Jan-90           Takeover                                             R N Sharma
Feb-90           This is not a work of fiction              Sushil Dawka
Mar-90
Apr-90
May-90         The man who never is !                     R N Sharma
Jun-90           Pi Baba                                                 Pritish Nandy
Jul-90            Rebellion                                             Rahul Joshi
Aug-90          A is for Aids                                        Sanjay Pujari
Sep-90          Argonaut                                              Sathya Saran
Oct-90          Freebird                                               H. Chaudhuri
Nov-90         The singer, Not the Song                   Ashok Banker
Dec-90           Nikhila and Alexander                      Ramya Sharma
Jan-91
Feb-91
Mar-91
Apr-91           Millennium plus one                         Anurag Garg
May-91          Being There                                       K Ghosh
Jun-91            Fowl Play                                           Rajeswari Singh
Jul-91            Home from the Hill                            Steve Rasnic Tem (Silver Jubilee Special)
Aug-Sept 1991       The game of God                      Sushil Dawke
Oct-91           The Sentience data                             Rudra Dutta


End of this index.

What will India be like in 2001 ?

A very interesting article in August 1989 issue of 2001 (ScienceToday) !!

"What will India be like in 2001 ?  Ten luminaries answer".

Seven questions were posed, and all the 10 luminaries (Dr. S.Ramani, et.al. ) answered.
Anyone interested to know the questions and what they answered ?
Make a study as to how they predicted !

( I am sorry, I cannot reproduce all the pages here.. Its too long ! )

Prasanna

Science Today .... > ..... 2001

Science Today was renamed as :

           2001
incorporating Science Today

from April 1988.

Why did they change the name ????? I'll try to answer (let me go through again !!).
If any of you have an idea about this, please post it here.

Can any of you clarify this :
Did any magazine (any publication ) any time, change its name in its life ??

Prasanna,  sciencetoday@gmail.com

Science Fiction : Index - 1988 &1989

Here is the next part of the index of ScienceFiction appeared in ST, during 1988 and 1989.

Dec-87        Flash foreward                          Mukul Sharma
Jan-88        Second coming                          R.N.Sharma
Feb-88       Grey Matter                              Partha Basu
Mar-88      The black hole of Calcutta       Rajeswari Singh
Apr-88       Canis Major                               John Gribbin
May-88      B O                                             Pritish nandy
Jun-88       Artificial Selection                     Anand Narasimhan
                          Trends in Science Fiction         Bal Phondke                 Cover story
Jul-88        Time and Again                        Anil Aggrawal
Aug-88       Survival of the fittest              John Gribbin & Marcus Chown
Sep-88       First person Plural                   Vijay Aswani
Oct-88        Engram                                    Balakrishna M Nayak
Nov-88      Twice upon a time                   Mukul Sharma
Dec-88       Salamander                              Geetha & Anand Narasimhan
Jan-89       Travelling light                        Anushka Ravishankar
Feb-89      Hot Shot                                    Sandipan Deb
Mar-89      Logging out                              Balakrishna M Nayak
Apr-89      Life Sentence                            Sridhar Raghavan
May-89     Third Degree                           Max Crowley
Jun-89      Word of Mouth                        Ganesh Rajan
Jul-89       Endgame                                  Balakrishna M Nayak
Aug-89     Collective unconscious            Duncan Adams
Sep-89      Thus Spake Gumblum           Mir Ahmed Ali
Oct-89      The final facial                         Sheela Jaywant
Nov-89     The Sea, Mendeho and Moonlight    Jeff Vendermeer
Dec-89      Time and Again                      Arunava Sinha
Jan-90

To continue ......

Science Fiction - Index : 1985, 1986, 1987

Here is the second part of the index of Science Fiction published in ST.

Compiled by  http://scienctoday.blogspot.com.

Jan 1985   The ‘scar’let                                                         Subodh Jawadekar
Feb 85       The body snatchers                                            Nandini Thatte
Mar 85      Another world                                                     Bimal Kar
Apr 85       Shock Treatment                                               Sathya Saran
May 85      Was I Mad                                                           Anand Jain
June 85     A conundrum of circles                                      Suresh Mathure
Jul 85        I want to die                                                        Sanjeevan
Aug 85       The eye of the beholder                                   John Gribbin
Sept 85     The perfect servant                                           Niranjan Ghate
Oct 85       Venus is watching                                              Rajasekhar Bhosnurmath
Nov 85      The traitor                                                          Laxman Londhe
Dec 85       The lift (Part I )                                                 Sanjay Havanur
Jan 1986   The lift (Part II)                                                Sanjay Havanur
Feb 86      An encounter with God                                     Debabrata Dash
Mar 86     Dilemma (Part I)                                                Sujatha
Apr 86      Dilemma (Part II)                                              Sujatha
May 86     The googly                                                          Subodh Jawadekar
Jun 86      The Computer and the housewife                   H. Choudhary
July 86     Encounter 35000 AD                                        Deepthi Diwakar
Aug 86     The Alien                                                            S. Subramoniam
Sept 86    Rain                                                                     Kenneth Doyle
Oct 86     Is the boss in ?                                                    Ganesh Rajan
Nov 86    Artwork                                                               Mukul Sharma
Dec 1986 FRITZ                                                                 SATYAJIT RAY
Jan 87      Kiss of fire                                                          Raju Chellam
Feb 87     The age of transparency                                 Arthur. C. Clarke
Mar 87    Skylight                                                              Mukul Sharma
Apr 87     Nunsuch                                                             Pritish Nandy           Meta fiction
May 87    The sign                                                              R N Sharma
Jun 87     In our image                                                      Balkrishna M Nayak
Jul 87       Day of dust                                                        Mir Ahmed Ali
Aug 87     All fall down                                                      PunyashlokeMishra &AnandNarasimhan
Sept 87    In an outside                                                     Subrat Sahoo
Oct 87     Trial period                                                        Girish. M
Nov 87     Shorts story                                                      Ravi Chandran
Dec 87      Flash foreward                                                 Mukul Sharma

...... To continue ...

Anyone interested to get the full index of Science fiction ? I can send you by mail (as a  .doc or .xls file ) . Please mail me to :  sciencetoday@gmail.com

Science Fiction

Here is the first part of the listing of Science Fiction appeared in ST. The rest of the list will be posted shortly.

“Science Today” : The fantastic resource magazine

An index of Science Fiction

Compiled by http://scienctoday.blogspot.com

Dec, 1981       Science Fiction Films. How much Science, How much fiction ?
                                                                                             Jayant V Narlikar, TIFR (Viewpoint)

Sept, 1983    The rare idol of Ganesha                           Jayant V Narlikar    (First SF in ST ??)
Nov, 1983     The Southpaw strain                                  Bal Phondke


Jan, 1984      The brain child                                            Niranjan Ghate
Feb, 84          The mystery of the Monte Carlo lock      Raymond Smullyan (Excerpts from the first ever “Mathematical Novel”
Mar, 84          The shadow and the shishya                    Suresh Mathuna
Apr, 84           The Salamandar factor                             Laxman Londhe
May, 84          The Imposter                                             Bal Phondke
Jun, 84           The Martian Chitar (Part 1)                     Narayan Dharap
Jul, 84            The Martian Chitar (Part 2)                     Narayan Dharap
Aug, 84          He who lives by the sword                        G C Prasad
Sept, 84         Close encounters of the fourth kind (Part 1 )          Arun Sadhu
Oct, 84           Close encounters of the fourth kind (Part 2 )         Arun Sadhu
Nov, 84          Close encounters of the fourth kind (Part 3 )         Arun Sadhu
Dec, 84           The Green Invaders                                  Jayant Narlikar

(to be continued....)

Science fiction, Technical writers....

Science Today is a "paalazhy" of resources for writers (Technical, Science fiction, Historians, ...).
There is a lot to read and learn, to write about, to quote, to refer, and ofcourse to write about.
Please wait for the listing of contents, issuewise.
Prasanna

History of Science & Technology

If someone says " My hobby is Philately", I understand. He is crazy about stamps ( and that too old stamps and coins). But what if I tell you that my hobby is "collecting old books and magazines" ? 
What do you call this hobby ?     ...........y ??

Science Today is about Science and Technology; history of it. If you read the issues (1966 to 1991), you will get a feel of how Technology was during those decades, and also a view on how it was earlier. That's not the end; you can study as to how and what those guys predicted developments in S&T. Make a comparison of those predictions and today's status !
ST have been presenting all its contents in simple terms ( mostly). They are easy to read and digest materials.

Prasanna

ST - Cartoon -1986

Students, please listen...

"Science Today" is a huge resource of knowledge. It contains articles (simple and interesting) on very many topics. Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Space, Biology, ....  and even Magic !!
I invite you to make use of this treasure.
Prasanna

ST and humour

Science Today had a good sense of humour. It dealt also with S&T of humour and humour in S&T.
Please see some of the early cartoons !
Prasanna

"Science Today" is not Science yesterday !

“SCIENCE TODAY” is not about 'Science yesterday'. It certainly is about Science today too.
As I had mentioned earlier, ST deals with the then latest of Science and Technology (1966-1991).
After this many years, some of you may feel, the articles are irrelevant or obsolete !! But that’s not the case. All contents of ST are relevant even today. Not only that; some of the articles are so interesting (sweet ! ) and nostalgic !
It is interesting to go through the articles; how the technology was those days, compared to those today. This itself is an excellent study ; How the Science and Technology grew over the last 4 decades.
For the youth today, ST is an excellent media to understand how S&T was for their parents, at their youth. Is it not exciting ? !

ST has been presenting the basic science and technology in a very simple format, in language and presentation. Well structured (edited), the articles had all necessary illustrations, with photographs as well.
ST definitely has the reputation of being simple and digestible to the common man. The data are accurate, and authoritative.

“SCIENCE TODAY” is not science yesterday ! Its truly relevant today too.
“ST” magazine, per say, may be history. But its contents are certainly current, with a historical flavour ! My attempt here is to relive “Science Today” !


Prasanna.

ST - 1969 August cover

ST - an article on Milk !

ST - April 1991 cover

ST : Cover and articles

Hi all,
Today, here are a few photographs, showing a few cover and articles.
Kindly see them, and comment.
Prasanna

"Science Today" : an invaluable treasure of knowledge on Science and Technology.

Hi all,
I had given a hint to you that this is a complete collection of the magazine "SCIENCE TODAY" ( from Times of India group, Bombay) published during 1966 to 1991. Now I am re-doing a verification of the status of the collection ( a couple of issues are missing it looks !!).  But, this is not just a collection of old issues of a magazine. This is a unique asset/knowledge resource created over time, taken care with effort, money, and dedication. 
Now, this treasure is available to all of you. My objective is to share this unique resource with all those needy person. 
Whoever and wherever you are, this is available to you. But how ?
1.  You tell me a topic; I can search for this item in ST, and let you know.
2.  You ask for a photocopy of a page, an article, an issue in full, OR even the whole collection.
3.  I can send you the copies through courier. 
4.  I can mail their images (taken with a digital camera) to you.
{ But, kindly note that searching, copying , photographing, courier etc.. involves effort, time, and cost. So, you may have to bear its cost - a very nominal one.
However, one or two pages, as an image, can be emailed to you absolutely free. }

I had mentioned about the photos of some of the cover pages, for you to see. But, the photos could not be uploaded. It always gives me an error messages. Sorry for that. Today I shall try with a low resolution image .

Prasanna

SCIENCE TODAY - Entertaining..Exciting...Instructive..

Right ! Really entertaining, with many regular articles, experiments, games, etc.. And educative as well.
It's exciting ! Even today, the articles are so exciting (even the cartoons ) . All the articles are simple, presented (written and drawn) in a simple, but serious style. Even children will enjoy reading and learning.
True, it's instructive ! All the items (put under various titles / departments) are relevant even today. You learn a lot by reading them. Remember, the contents are not just "old' or obsolete. They are all relevant and current even now. Except that some of them has the historial value too.

I shall put a few of the articles here, for you to read, learn, and enjoy. wait for those posts.

ST is an excellant reference library of Science and Technology. It is a "paalazhy" of information, and hence a very valuable knowledge resource.
ST can thus help you all ...Teachers, Students, researchers, and (as I told you last time), anyone
with an interest in Science and Technology.

I offer my services to get you the material from the ST issues (complete collection available with me @* ).
In the meanwhile, please have a look at some of the cover pages of ScienceToady !

Anyone listening ???

Prasanna


Labels: Science Today

"Second Life" of Science Today.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
"Second Life" of Science Today

Hi all,
ST was born in August 1966. Grown, at the age of 22, ST had a rebirth. ST was renamed as :

2001
incorporating
SCIENCE TODAY

The new name was from April 1988. It would be an interesting research into the life of ST, in its second life. I'll someother time post a study
(maybe, in a management angle !)

Prasanna




Labels: 2001 Science Today

Welcome to "Science Today".

Awake and Arise all Scientific Communities .... !

I welcome you all to the wonderful and exciting world of a knowledge resource (treasure) : "Science Today". Scientists, Technologists, Researchers, Managers, Teachers, Students,
and all those interested in Science and Technology ...  all will find something useful here.

Before I proceed...

Most of you  may remember (be aware of) the Indian Science&Technology magazine titled "Science Today" ( a Times of India publication).  Started publication in July 1966,
ScienceToday (hereafter called "ST" ), was very popular, and served the purpose of 
educating (and making aware of ) Science and Technology to the millions  of India. 
However, younger generation may not be aware of this fantastic treasure of knowledge. 
 
ScienceToday, as ToI says is "For Everyman". 
True in all respects ; its for Everyone !
If anyone feels that the resources in ST are obsolete today (who wants 1966's data and knowledge ? ! ? !), then you are not right. What ST gives is precious , 
rare, and very very very useful. And interesting too !

I have the complete collection of this precious knowledge resource. Now, I think I can
share the ST resources with anyone in need. I shall post more details, in a day's time.

Are you interested ?  Please post your comments and views.

Prasanna.