‘The Milk-clock' ( ! ) at Dr. Jayant Narlikar’s home in Pune

One of the greatest Indians, the world class astrophysicist Dr. Jayant Narlikar passed away recently. Tributes and heartfelt eulogies have poured in from all over the world – talking about what an outstanding scientist, teacher, science fiction writer, institution builder and science communicator he was. 

In one of the articles on him - I came across the photo of this ‘milk-clock’ from Dr. Narlikar’s home ( meant for communicating the quantity of milk needed to the milk-man 😊 ) and thought this was such a beautiful, quirky and delightfully human bit about the great man !