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24th January 2014 Mumbai, India

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by Vijay Iyer

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Plasma research by the Sabarmati

Fluorescent lamps; flat-panel displays; sterilisation devices for medical tools –  what’s common among these items? They all have plasma in them! Plasma is the fourth state of matter; the others being solid, liquid, and gas. It is formed when a gas is heated to extremely high temperatures. Recently, I visited the Institute for Plasma Research […]

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10th December 2010

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Walking 358km in the footsteps of Gandhi

On  Thursday 18 November forty  people gathered  pre-dawn at one of India’s most historic sites, the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, where Mahatma Gandhi lived for many years. The occasion was the beginning of an India-UK Friendship Walk, which my wife Jill  has organised with massive support from members of the Association of British Scholars in […]

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