1. Editorial

   • N. Mukunda

   Departments Pages: 1 - 2

2. Paul Erdös, the Western Ramanujan

   • C. S. Yogananda

   Departments Pages: 2 - 4

3. Science smiles

   • R. K. Laxman

   Departments Pages: 5 - 5

4. Cretaceous — Tertiary mass extinction

   • P. V. Sukumaran

   General Article Pages: 8 - 17

5. Probing the solar interior

   • Ashok Ambastha

   General Article Pages: 18 - 31

6. Enzyme vs. extremozyme

   • Santosh Kumar

   General Article Pages: 32 - 40

7. Plant glandular trichomes

   • A. John Peter
   • Thomas G. Shanower

   General Article Pages: 41 - 45

8. Expert systems: An introduction

   • K. S. R. Anjaneyulu

   General Article Pages: 46 - 58

9. Barytes

   • V. Raghu

   General Article Pages: 59 - 61

10. On two problems of Paul Erdös in combinatorics

    • Shailesh Shirali

    Departments Pages: 62 - 68

11. Qualitative organic analysis lab

    • Sangeeta Pandita

    Departments Pages: 69 - 69

12. Integral distances: A problem from Paul Erdös

    • Shailesh Shirali

    Departments Pages: 70 - 70

13. A burning question

    • J. V. Narlikar

    Departments Pages: 70 - 70

14. International team shows that primes can be found in surprising places

    • Andrew Granville

    Research News Pages: 71 - 72

15. Book review

    • Mohammed Farooq Ahmed
    • Gangan Prathap
    • R. Srinivasan

    BookReview Pages: 73 - 80

16. Ramanujan and I

    • Paul Erdös

    Reflections Pages: 81 - 92

17. Acknowledgement

    Acknowledgments Pages: 92 - 92

18. Living science creatively

    • A. Rajanikanth

    Departments Pages: 93 - 94

19. Poster on ‘shapes of atomic orbitals’

    • K. L. Sebastian

    Erratum Pages: 95 - 95

20. Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgments Pages: 95 - 95

21. Books received

    Announcement Pages: 96 - 96