1. Editorial

   • S. Mahadevan

   Departments Pages: 1 - 1

2. Jaroslav Heyrovský and polarography

   • Michael Heyrovský

   Departments Pages: 2 - 7

3. The coming of a classical world

   • Anu Venugopalan

   General Articles Pages: 10 - 28

4. From natural numbers to numbers and curves in nature —I

   • A. K. Mallik

   General Artical Pages: 29 - 37

5. Cambrian explosion of life: theBig Bang in metazoan evolution

   • P. V. Sukumaran

   General Article Pages: 38 - 50

6. Polarography

   • V. Lakshminarayanan

   General Article Pages: 51 - 61

7. Nature watch

   • Anuradha Bhat

   Feature Article Pages: 62 - 73

8. Conjugacy classes in alternating groups

   • Anjana Khurana
   • Dinesh Khurana

   Departments Pages: 74 - 78

9. Learning earthquake design and construction

   • C. V. R. Murty

   Departments Pages: 79 - 83

10. Learning earthquake design and construction

    • C. V. R. Murty

    Departments Pages: 83 - 87

11. Photochemistry and pericyclic reactions

    • G. Nagendrappa

    Book Review Pages: 88 - 89

12. Excerpts from the Nobel lecture of J Heyrovský

    Classics Pages: 90 - 93