S. Ananthanarayanan

S. Ananthanarayanan was a student of physics who strayed into the world of newspapers, banking and then the civil services. But he stayed committed to the sciences and the dissemination of science, and has brought current developments in the sciences to lay newspaper readers through a weekly column since the year 2001. In an earlier book, Icons from the World of Science, he describes to the general reader the work of ten Indian scientists. In recognition of his work, in the year 2007, he received a national award for science communication from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.