⁠Beyond Horizon

Modern education, writes Professor Padmanabhan Krishna — physicist and Trustee of the Krishnamurti Foundation India — produces sharp minds and minds blind to themselves. Drawing on his scientific training and nearly three decades in the orbit of J. Krishnamurti, the philosopher whose dialogues with the celebrated physicist David Bohm were later published as the book "The Ending of Time," Krishna argues that humanity’s outer scientific ambitions and its inner hunger for wisdom have been falsely severed. From Galileo’s persecution to the hardening of institutional religion, he traces how this rift opened — and sets it against older traditions of inquiry: the Buddha, Socrates, and the Upanishads. His central claim is unsparing: science and spirituality are not rivals but twin investigations into two dimensions of reality, and recovering their unity may be the only honest response to the fractured modern mind.

Meet Professor Anthony James Leggett, Nobel laureate in Physics (2003) and titan of low-temperature physics, whose groundbreaking Leggett-Garg inequality — born from his 1985 collaboration with Anupam Garg — unlocks laboratory tests of Schrödinger’s Cat paradox, challenging realism itself. This piece emerges from an intimate conversation Anindya De shared with the professor during his 80th birthday conference at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru.

Physicist CN Yang who shared a Nobel Prize with TD Lee in 1957, propagates what he calls learning by osmosis

Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) scan the entire genome to pinpoint genetic variations linked to common diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. This overview introduces the key genetic concepts, study designs, and statistical methods that make GWAS possible, while highlighting safeguards against false results. It also explores how GWAS discoveries are being translated into tools like Polygenic Risk Scores, paving the way for more precise and personalized approaches to public health.

Picture a mind unafraid to pursue the Universe’s deepest mysteries — one that explores subatomic secrets and maps the cosmic order shaping our lives....