Vigyan Ke Ramchandra / विज्ञान के रामचंद्र : ‘भारतरत्न’ प्रोफ़ेसर चिंतामणि नागेश रामचंद्र राव की जीवनी / ‘Bharath Ratna’ Professor Chintamani Nagesh Ramchandra Rav Ki Jeevni

Prof. CNR Rao is a living legend. Einstein paid a compliment to Mahatma Gandhi on his 70th birthday. He said “Generations to come it may well be will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth”. At Prof. Rao’s 85th birthday I would like to repeat these words. Prof. Rao is not an individual he is an institution he is a phenomenon. I feel lucky that our generations could see him touch him feel him experience him learn from him and get inspired by him. I have watched Prof. Rao as a scientist as a science leader as a science institution builder and indeed as a leader of leaders of science. I have also watched him as a wonderful warm hearted human being with abundance of empathy. I have seen his child like enthusiasm. I have watched him as `courage personified’. Dr. R.A. Mashelkar FRSNational Research Professor