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In this essay we collect and put together a number of ideas relevant to the understanding of the phenomenon of creativity, confining our considerations mostly to the domain of cognitive psychology while we will, on a few occasions, hint at neuropsychological underpinnings as well. In this, we will mostly focus on creativity in science, since creativity in other domains of human endeavor have common links with scientific creativity while differing in numerous other specific respects. Creativity involves a major restructuring of the conceptual space , in which affect, decision, and inference play a role of paramount importance........  Click to read

 The incredible success of quantum theory has been possible by investigations in two parallel courses, of which one may be referred to as the mainstream while the other is away from that mainstream, occurring in relative obscurity. At times, this second course has assumed great relevance........ . Click to read

Alexander Grothendieck, one of the great mathematicians of all times, was a mystery man who moved through life in a single-minded pursuit of purity of the soul, for which he abandoned mathematics and shut himself away from human society. His enormous mathematical contributions apart, he left behind an equally enormous volume of unpublished manuscript, exploring in his own way the foundations of human existence. Humanity will perhaps for ever be in puzzled wonder about who he was and what he stood for.  Click to read

  [Read my Bengali article on the recent spell of political violence in West Bengal, and the urgent need of a spiritual resurgence. The term 'spiritual resurgence' does not mean anything mystical or other-worldly, but refers to our deeper realization of our own selves in the world around us.]  click to read

[This is a self-published e-book available at the internet archive; you can buy the book at a nominal price here ]  Click to read the chapter on the special and general theories of relativity . I hope you will find it readable and interesting.

This article is a sequel to my monograph 'Inference Belief and Interpretation in Science'. It looks at the self  of an individual as a complex system and explores the roots of free will to self-linked psychological resources. The apparent conflict between free will and determinism is examined in the light of the complexity of the self-linked processes.  Click here to read

  [This book is published by Elsevier. It is an exhaustive survey of basic concepts of Optics, and is modern in approach. It captures the essential charm of physics.] Click here to read the chapter on the foundations of ray optics.