pp 1-1 March 2002 Editorial

Editorial

Amitabh Joshi

pp 2-5 March 2002 Article-in-a-Box

Tribute to Michael Faraday

C N R Rao

pp 6-7 March 2002 Article-in-a-Box

Faraday and Electrochemical Decomposition

A Q Contractor

pp 8-9 March 2002 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

pp 10-17 March 2002 General Article

Asymmetry in Nature - Discrete Symmetries in Particle Physics and their Violation - Background and Parity Violation

B Ananthanarayan J Meeraa Bharti Sharma Seema Sharma Ritesh K Singh

pp 18-24 March 2002 General Article

Operating Systems - Objectives and Evolution

M Suresh Babu

pp 25-34 March 2002 General Article

Markov Chain Monte Carlo - Examples

Arnab Chakraborty

pp 35-45 March 2002 General Article

Michael Faraday: Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction

S Chatterjee

pp 46-50 March 2002 General Article

Faraday: Father of Electromagnetism

S V Bhat

pp 51-55 March 2002 General Article

Senescence in Fungi

Anthony Deepak D’souza Ramesh Maheshwari

pp 56-60 March 2002 Classroom

Flight Overbooking Problem – Use of a Probability Model

T Krishnan

pp 61-65 March 2002 Classroom

A Simple, Rapid and Inexpensive Procedure to Distinguish Amino Acids and their Esters

B Ramachandra Murty

pp 66-79 March 2002 Classroom

Onion Plant as an Educational Tool for Phylogenetic Studies: Molecular Analysis and a New Phylogeny?

Shilpa Pathak Amita Akolkar Bakhtaver S Mahajan

pp 80-83 March 2002 Book Review

The Bicycle Story

K R Y Simha

pp 84-86 March 2002 Book Review

Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution

Vasant Natarajan

pp 87-89 March 2002 Book Review

The Chemical History of a Candle

H R Madhusudan

pp 90-98 March 2002 Classics

The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Faraday

pp 100-100 March 2002 Featured Scientist

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)