Doing Science in India:My Second Innings

The book under review is somewhat unusual in that it contains the memoirs of a scientist (G. Padmanaban) during a period spanning two decades after formal retirement, that too on activities carried out in the institution in which he began his career as a student and rose to become the Director. In India, it is rare that someone is enabled to carry out active research after retirement. Many of those who managed to remain active after formal retirement, have done so by establishing their own institutions. It is a tribute to the personality of Padmanaban and also to the liberal attitude of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) that he could do so much for so long after retirement, with the Institute as the base.