Everything about the space is a unique source of delight and excitement for him - the endless void, the bitter silence and loneliness, the incessant path, the long and mettlesome task of mastering the knowledge of voyaging, nothing ....nothing...... can prevent him from feeling the powerful call of the space, a call he cannot resist. Rather at this age of 54 he avers, "I can go to space again". He is no anyone but a legendary figure of the, world, wing Commander (Retd.) Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian Cosmonaut.

Proff. Gerardus 'T Hooft (Nobel Laureate in Physics - 1999)

erard 't Hooft An autobioqraphv :

"A man who knows everything'_. This, reportedly, was my reply to a school teacher asking me what I'd like to become when I grow up. I was eight years old, or thereabouts, and what I wanted to say was "professor", but, still not knowing everything, I had forgotten that word. And what I really meant was "scientist", someone who unravels the secrets of the fundamental Laws of Nature.

These words are the befitting tribute to the grand and grandeur of Prof. Yash Pal's'boldness and ingenuity to accomplish something noteworthy. Born on 26th November, 1926_ he was blessed with a scientific bent of mind which he blissfully catapulted to garner the matrix that helped him to emerge as a valorous fort in the arena of physics.