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Vol 80  No 11
10th June 2001

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P. Balaram
S. Ramaseshan.
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Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

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In this issue


EDITORIAL

1361 The Third Culture
P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

1363 Invisible pollution

S. Himesh

1363 More Bradmans

M. S. Kanungo

1364 Academic leadership and the ailing state of Indian science

D. K. Basa

1364 Need for reforms in Indian National Science Academy
H. S. Virk
1365 Jyotir-vigyan
S. C. Tiwari
1366 Astrology and science
V. R. Sashidhar
1366 Diagenetic rare earth phosphates
Vivek Laul; Response: A. V. Sankaran

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NEWS

1367 Nuclear power statistics for 2000
S. Ganesan

MEETING REPORT

1368 Chickpea regeneration and transformation
Pawan K. Jaiwal, Sonia and K. C. Upadhyaya

RESEARCH NEWS

1369 Molecular link between diabetes and obesity: The 
resistin story
Nasreen Z. Ehtesham

COMMENTARY

1372 Brain dynamics: Neural correlates of mental activities
G. Baskaran

OPINION

1374 Need for a Bharatiya S&T policy for global resurgence
N. N. Mehrotra

1375 From the archives

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1376

Significant changes in ocean parameters after the Gujarat earthquake

Ramesh P. Singh, Sanjeeb Bhoi and Alok K. Sahoo

1377 Antioxidant property of Mucuna pruriens Linn.
Yamini B. Tripathi and Anil K. Upadhyay
1378 Bats of the Indian subcontinent – An update
C. Srinivasulu and Bhargavi Srinivasulu

GENERAL ARTICLE

1381 Genes, brains, and unpredictability: Developments in the sciences and reflections on what it means to be 
alive
Ramakrishna Ramaswamy

REVIEW ARTICLE

1387 Natural products as inducers of apoptosis: Implication for cancer therapy and prevention
Amit K. Taraphdar, Madhumita Roy and R. K. Bhattacharya

RESEARCH ARTICLE

1397 The 2001 Kutch (Bhuj) earthquake: Coseismic surface 
features and their significance
Kusala Rajendran, C. P. Rajendran, Mahesh Thakkar and 
Martitia P. Tuttle

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1406

Reactive organization of particles into macroscopic 
length scales by myelin growth

G. Hota, Jayesh R. Bellare, Kartic C. Khilar and C. Manohar
1408

Micelle-catalysed redox reaction

Kaushik Mallick, Suresh Jewrajka, Narayan Pradhan and 
Tarasankar Pal
1413

Single radiofrequency source for MR and hyperthermia 
studies

Rama Jayasundar
1416

Anomalous VLF electric field perturbations associated 
with Chamoli earthquakes of March/April 1999

Raj Pal Singh, P. K. Mishra and Birbal Singh
1421

Inheritance of resistance to brown planthopper in an 
Oryza rufipogon
(Griff.)-derived line in rice

Li Rongbai, Qin Xueyi, Wei Sumei, M. P. Pandey, 
P. K. Pathak, Huang Fenguan, Li Qing and Luo Shanyu
1424

Effect of various culture conditions on growth and 
production of salazinic acid in Bulbothrix setsch
-
wanensis (lichenized ascomycetes) in vitro

B. C. Behera and Urmila Makhija
1428

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of 
pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) and molecular 
analysis of regenerated plants

P. K. Lawrence and K. R. Koundal
1432

New stable isotope records of sediment cores from the 
SE Arabian Sea – Inferences on the variations in 
monsoon regime during the late Quaternary

M. Thamban and V. Purnachandra Rao
1437

40Ar–39Ar age of a national geological monument: The 
Gilbert Hill basalt, Deccan Traps, Bombay

Hetu C. Sheth, Kanchan Pande and Rajneesh Bhutani
1440

Discovery and sedimentology of microstromatolites 
from Menga Limestone (Neoprotero­zoic/Vendian), 
Upper Subansiri district, Arunachal Pradesh, 
NE Himalaya, India

V. C. Tewari
1444

Mating success and morphometric traits in Drosophila ananassae

Seema Sisodia and B. N. Singh
1447

Polymelia in the tadpoles of Bufo melanostictus (Anura: Bufonidae)

Pravati Kumari Mahapatra, Priyambada Mohanty-Hejmadi 
and Sushil Kumar Dutta

BOOK REVIEWS

1452

Thomas Kuhn – A Philosophical History for our Times

reviewed by S. V. Seshadri
1453

Van Rawats – A Tribe in Peril

reviewed by V. Arivudai Nambi
1453 SEWANA (South Europe, West Asia and North Africa): 
Durum Research Network
reviewed by Renu Khanna-Chopra
1454 Probing Photosynthesis: Mechanism, Regulation and adaptation
reviewed by M. K. Raval

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PERSONAL NEWS

1456 Biswajit Nag – An obituary
S. P. Sukhatme

ADVERTISEMENTS

1457

Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal

1458 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun
1459

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

1460

Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack

1461

National Institute of Research on Jute & Allied Fibre Technology (ICAR), Kolkata

1462

Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow

1463

Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (ICAR), Cochin

1464

International Conference on ‘Stabilization of Enzymes’
and ‘Biosensors’,  Chennai

1464

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai

1465

Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh

1465

All India Biotech Association (AIBA) Awards, New Delhi

1466

Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, West Bengal

1466

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Swami Prakashanand
Ayurveda Research Centre