Text of speech on Fracture

Dr. P. Rama Rao - Past President, IIM
(delivered at the inaugural session of the Interquadrennial Conference of the International Conference on Fracture (IQCICF-2008) held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on August 4, 2008.)

Materials Research Priorities

Prof. R Chidambaram
Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, Past President, MRSI
(delivered at the inaugural session of 13th AGM of MRSI at Hyderabad on 7.2.2002)

Materials Science & Technology
    We are good followers but not leaders!

E.S.R.Gopal
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science,  Bangalore 560 012
(the talk given on Friday the 5th April 2002 at IGCAR)