1. Editorial

   • Priti Shankar

   Departments Pages: 1 - 2

2. Professor Hans a Bethe—A brief homage

   • R Rajaraman

   Departments Pages: 3 - 5

3. The story of nuclear matter

   • R Rajaraman

   General Article Pages: 8 - 32

4. Hans bethe, quantum mechanics, and the lamb shift

   • A N Mitra

   General Article Pages: 33 - 48

5. Hans Bethe, the sun and the neutrinos

   • G Rajasekaran

   General Article Pages: 49 - 66

6. Nucleosynthesis and energy production in stars: Bethe’s crowning achievement

   • Indranil Mazumdar

   General Article Pages: 67 - 77

7. An easy, rapid and cost-effective method of microtitration

   • Mala Das Sharma
   • Ch. Dhanamma

   Classroom Pages: 78 - 83

8. Learning earthquake design and construction 21. Why are open-ground storey buildings vulnerable in earthquakes?

   • C V R Murty

   Classroom Pages: 84 - 87

9. Learning earthquake design and construction 22. Why are short columns more damaged during earthquakes?

   • C V R Murty

   Classroom Pages: 88 - 91

10. Solution to how many balls are there in the urn at 12 o’clock?

    • Soubhik Chakraborty

    Departments Pages: 92 - 93

11. Engineering the chloroplast genome

    • P Manju Elizabeth

    Research News Pages: 94 - 95

12. National Board for Higher Mathematics (Department of Atomic Energy) Grants for Participating in ICM 2006, Madrid

    Departments Pages: 95 - 95

13. A conversation about solid state physics

    • Hans A Bethe
    • N David Mermin

    Reflections Pages: 96 - 104