While this gives students what they think is an impressive looking CV, they end up being nervous wrecks. Often very poor on understanding and very low on confidence. I hope policymakers will review such policies in view of the mental health impact.

This is leading to a situation where each student is taking on academic load which is at least twice of what they should. It is often more because they also enroll in one off courses online, or audit courses in person, or start internships. Often all of the above.

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And I have added some anecdotes and thoughts in the editorial.

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Ayan Guha pays a tribute with a cartoon.

JVN did a lot of outreach and writing in Marathi. Ashish Mahabal writes about this: "Prof. Narlikar’s Contributions to Marathi Literature"

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JVN was equally at home in science communication and outreach. Biman Nath writes about "J V Narlikar: The Accessible Astronomer"

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Naresh Dadhich writes about institution building by JVN: "IUCAA: A Novel Experiment"

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Ajit Kembhavi writes about "Some Scientific Works of Jayant Narlikar"

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We reproduce the classic paper "A New Theory of Gravitation" by F. Hoyle and J. V. Narlikar with an introduction by Ghanashyam Date and Sanjeev Dhurandhar

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