Date:19/04/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/04/19/stories/2003041900261002.htm

Opinion - Letters to the Editor

The rising dew

Sir, — Apropos the well-deserved tribute to K.S. Krishnan, `A great theoretical physicist' (Science and Technology, April 17), I would like to recall my first meeting with him, in the spring of 1937, during my final year at Oxford. I had been requested by a common friend to meet Dr. Krishnan and show him round the colleges. It was a beautiful morning, and I first took him to the gardens of St. John's College. The leaves of the shrubs were wet with dew, and I remarked that the dew must have fallen overnight. The great physicist chided me very gently: "My young friend, dew does not fall — it rises."

C.V. Narasimhan,

Chennai