SPECIAL INTERESTS

1. Distance and Open Learning.

2. Popularization of Science and Technology (Delivered more than 300 talks on TV and Radio on different aspects of Science and Technology; broadcast a series of talks on BBC on Science & Culture); prepared a documentary film on 'Science learning at home' at a UNESCO sponsored workshop at Poona, India in 1985, which has been frequently telecast by Door-Darshan, India; obtained the TWNSO (Third World Network of Scientific Organizations). Award for the promotion of the public understanding of science.

3. Science Education
4. Synthesis of science and culture
5. Science and devbelopment issue in the Third Worl (Environment, Poverty alleviation, Energy issues, Gender
issues etc).
6. Understanding of the relation between Science and Religion