When the maker of our particle accelerator facility finds time for you :)

 


It is not everyday that one gets invited to dinner at the ITC...and its definitely not everyday that one gets to sit next to the country's top most scientist in particle physics analysis...kaka has built particle accelerators for the country amongst many other adventures in physics infrastructure...it was amazing to see his eyes light up decades ago when we were discussing quantum crypto :) A gem of a person having helped and steered so many careers in the right direction...I am friends with his son, an IITB grad, who was studying at IITB while I was working there...a brilliant mind who completed his PhD in chemical engineering and now continues his career in the US. I wish kaka and his family the best of the future. I am grateful that his son never forgets to find time for me whenever he visits town from the US.

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