Jayant Narlikar: Cosmic visionary who bridged chasm of science and society

Professor Jayant Narlikar, a pioneering Indian astrophysicist, profoundly influenced science and society, leaving a legacy of curiosity and inspiration.

It is a day heavy with grief — for Indian science, for those who were fortunate to know Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, and for the generations whose lives were shaped, sometimes unknowingly, by his ideas, his clarity, and his refusal to ever stand at a distance from society.

Dr Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, one of India’s most respected astrophysicists and a tireless science communicator, passed away in Pune early Tuesday morning. He was 86. (PTI) (PTI)

For the world, he was a legendary astrophysicist, a founder of modern cosmology in India, and a fearless challenger of orthodoxies. But to those of us who had the good fortune to