Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025): A bright star who rewrote the story of the cosmos

Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025): A bright star who rewrote the story of the cosmos

A bright star has gone dark.Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar died in Pune on May 20. He was 87.He devoted his life to the quest for scientific knowledge, the advancement and dissemination of rational thought and the steadfast struggle against pseudoscience.There is perhaps no student of science in India today who must not have heard of Narlikar. Using chalks of various colours and a blackboard, Narlikar imparted lessons on the universe, and our pl…