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8. An article with very rare information and insight into Swathi Thirunal's romance with science

7. A brief note on Universal Digital Library

6. An article on teaching difficult topics

5. Here is an explanatory article on Semesterisation, Credit & Semester System, Continuous Assessment and Grading that I have prepared based on the proposal of the Kerala State Higher Education Council. This is meant for a layperson to warm up on the topic.  This is currently Version 9.2 (November 8th, 2008). As I am getting more and more feedback, I am in the process of modifying this.

4. A Novel for children: Idichakka Plammoottile Rajakumari Thanthram Padichathengane ?" Published by State Institute of Children's Literature. This is a humorous novel which retells the 500-year old fairy tale from Germany, titled Rumpelstiltskin. I have tried to weave into it  Trivandrum dialect of Malayalam, some characters from my home town, around the Vanchiyoor Govt UPS where I began my formal education, and some excitement about Claude Shannon's information theory in its crudest form. Read a limited preview of it here.  My homage to Gopala Pilla Sir of Vanchiyoor school who appears in this novel, who passed away at the age of 100, a few days before this book was published in April 2008.  Here is the review of the book in Hindu by Anand Parthasarathy

3. Here is a Malayalam  article I recently wrote about the use of "Sir" in campuses. I have received about 40 responses to this. Await an expended version of this article incorporating and reacting to the responses. July 14, 2007.

2. Here is a Malayalam write-up in Mathrubhoomi on a rare sketch of the Karamana Bridge in Trivandrum, which appeared in 1855 in the Illustrated London News. 

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* ഒന്നാം ക്ലാസില് ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യണോ? Computer education for first standard students, is it essential? (Download PDF)

* Who is afraid of Research ? On becoming a Researcher (Download PDF)
 
* Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Tutorial from CSI Communications 2007 (Download PDF)

* Travancore Yakshi (1870): An amusing super-natural expereince of a westerner in Kochi in 19th      century (Download PDF)
 
* 108 Questions that Young Teachers should ask themselves (Download PDF)  

* Computer Aided Drug Design (IEEE Potentials) Download PDF

* Travancore Medical report of 1842: Article from Journal of Kerala Studies, 2006 (Download PDF)

*  Paper Submission Checklist For Research Scholars Download PDF

*  Art & Science of Googling, A primer for academia  Download PDF

*  Methan Mani Software (Download)

*  Fourier Java Applet 

*  Two booklets by 'mathemagician' Sudhakaran Nalanchira on Abacus and Subacus.

*  Compilation of Socially Relevant S & T Projects for College Students by Deepak P, IBM