1. Editorial

   • N Mukunda

   Departments Pages: 1 - 2

2. Origin(?) of the universe

   • Jayant V Narlikar

   Series Article Pages: 6 - 15

3. Know your personal computer

   • S K Ghoshal

   Series Article Pages: 16 - 22

4. Learning organic chemistry through natural products

   • N R Krishnaswamy

   Series Article Pages: 23 - 30

5. Knots

   • V S Sunder

   General Article Pages: 31 - 43

6. A crab in the lab that identified high and low tides in the sea two miles away

   • M K Chandrashekaran

   General Article Pages: 44 - 51

7. Nature watch

   • T R Shankar Raman

   Feature Article Pages: 52 - 61

8. Molecule of the month

   • Uday Maitra

   Feature Article Pages: 62 - 64

9. What's new in computers

   • Vijnan Shastri

   Feature Article Pages: 65 - 70

10. The multidimensional drunkard

    Departments Pages: 71 - 72

11. Dustinguishing isomers by NMR analysis

    • Uday Maitra

    Departments Pages: 72 - 73

12. 100kg with five stones

    • Rahmat Yousuf-zai

    Departments Pages: 74 - 74

13. Finding the odd ball

    Departments Pages: 74 - 74

14. The dwarf

    • S K Ghoshal

    Departments Pages: 75 - 75

15. Customers in book exhibition

    • Bhaskar Bagchi

    Departments Pages: 75 - 78

16. Memory as a life walking down memory lanes

    • S Krishnaswamy

    Book Review Pages: 79 - 81

17. Science—Its philosophy and spirit

    • Hermann Bondi

    Reflections Pages: 82 - 95

18. Silver Jubilee Meeting of the Ethological Society of India and National Symposium on Behaviour December 28–30, 1996

    Departments Pages: 96 - 96