pp 1-2 January 1998 Editorial

Editorial

N Mukunda

pp 3-4 January 1998 Article-in-a-Box

Abdus Salam

N Mukunda

pp 5-5 January 1998 Science Smiles

Science Smiles

R K Laxman

pp 8-14 January 1998 Series Article

Multiplication on Rn Division Algebra and Vector Product

Basudeb Datta

pp 15-20 January 1998 Series Article

The Immune System and Bodily Defence - How Does the Immune System Live With a Randomly Generated Repertoire?

Vineeta Bal Satyajit Rath

pp 21-26 January 1998 General Article

The Riddle of the Apparently Hollow Himalaya

Ramesh Chander

pp 27-35 January 1998 General Article

Why Do Clocks Move Clockwise? The Dynamics of Collective Learning

Vivek S Borkar

pp 36-46 January 1998 General Article

Love Games that Insects Play - The Evolution of Sexual Behaviours in Insects

K N Ganeshaiah

pp 47-60 January 1998 General Article

An Introduction to Parallel Computation

Abhiram Ranade

pp 61-66 January 1998 Classroom

Special Relativity – An Exoteric Narrative !

S R Madhu Rao

pp 67-72 January 1998 Classroom

Molecular Weight and Size of Macromolecules

Zahoor Ahmad

pp 73-73 January 1998 Think It Over

Where is the Missing String?

Sudip Bose

pp 74-78 January 1998 Research News

Less Brain, Less Brawn: A New Evolutionary View of Man

J A Santosh

pp 79-80 January 1998 Book Review

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Milind G Watve

pp 81-88 January 1998 Reflections

Einstein's Last Dream: The Space – Time Unification of Fundamental Forces

Abdus Salam

pp 89-90 January 1998 Reflections

Extract from Salam's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Stockholm, December 8, 1979

pp 91-94 January 1998 Information and Announcements

IUC-DAEF

pp 94-95 January 1998 Information and Announcements

Third Annual Internatio-nal Environmental Essay Contest

pp 96-96 January 1998

Acknowledgements

pp 98-98 January 1998 Featured Scientist

Abdus Salam (1926-1996)