(1957-2021): In Remembrance.

Abstract

A dedication in a book can sometimes bring out the innermost yearnings of the author. The book had an interesting title – After the first three minutes – the story of our universe, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Coming two decades and a year after the perennial classic The First Three Minutes, written by physicist Steven Weinberg, this book about the cosmic after-story after the first three minutes had been written by an Indian physicist – Thanu Padmanabhan.

Padmanabhan was with the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCCAA) at Pune - one of those institutions that make an Indian proud.