Ramachandran Nair, Prof. (Dr.) CG, Former Secretary, Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Government of Kerala, and former Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Kerala. He is an internationally recognised research professor in the fi eld of chemistry and materials science. A Scholar in many foreign languages including German, French and English, he has travelled and lectured in India and broad on topics of science, technology as well as culture, ethics and philosophy and linkage between science and spirituality., India