Sunil Mukhi's Home Page
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on this website
Physics. My publications, and a number of articles and links on string theory for a general audience.

tantu-jaal. My new blog on science, music, food, cinema, literature and the city of Mumbai.

Home page for my Graduate Course on General Relativity, being given at TIFR from August-November 2009.

All about my father. A website in memory of my father, the late Parsram Mukhi.

Music Some information about Indian Classical Music, and some links.

Photographs. A few photographs of myself: you have been warned!

Kumar Gandharva. A separate website, maintained by myself, about Pandit Kumar Gandharva, legendary musician and intellectual of Indian Classical Music.

Interests. Links to some of my other hobbies and interests, webpages that I liked, and a few articles that I wrote.

Mail me.

about myself
I am a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India, in the Department of Theoretical Physics. My research deals with the physics of elementary particles, more specifically Quantum Field Theory and String Theory. If you like, you can learn more about these subjects by going to the Physics page of this website.

I have recently started a blog called tantu-jaal that you may like to look at.

Here are some views of the Tata Institute (click to enlarge).

I have a serious interest in Indian Classical Music, on which I spend a large part of my spare time. You will find more about this on my Music page.

Some Photographs from my album can be viewed on this site.

My other interests include travel, meditation, software, literature, cinema, photography, jazz and rock music, and cooking. I don't claim to be particularly good at any of these (except perhaps cooking). Some of these interests are represented on the Interests page.

I maintain a website on the legendary Pandit Kumar Gandharva, the musician who was a towering intellectual figure in Indian Classical Music.

To navigate through my Home Page, please click on any of the links at the left.

current topic
From now on there will be no "current topic" posted here. Instead you are cordially invited to visit my blog, tantu-jaal, at sunilmukhi.blogspot.com.
previous topics
Let's Get Physical, March-April, 2007.

A series of light-hearted articles I wrote for the Times of India. The link above leads to the e-paper of Times of India, which you will need a (free) account to access. Once you manage to login, go to the Mumbai Edition and scroll to page 15 of the Sunday paper starting from March 11 2007.

Man, Myth and Miracles, March 2005
A talk that I delivered at the Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai.

Dear Times of India, March 2004
An open letter to the Times of India: in which I release pent-up feelings of admiration for India's fine journalistic enterprise.

Photographs of my Iran trip, October 2003
Captivating landscapes, elegant and historic cities, gracious and gentle hospitality.

A Criminal War, April 2003
Some of my thoughts on the criminal invasion of Iraq in 2003, as well as links to articles.
my guiding
principle
May everyone be happy

"May everyone be happy"

Last Updated: April 7, 2008