Let's Talk about Guy's Girls and Sex

Can you catch AIDS by having lunch with a HIV+ve friend?  How do gay people look? What is an erection? Is this love or just lust? What are the different contraceptives available in the market?  For that matter, how does one get pregnant?

 LET’S TALK ABOUT GUYS, GIRLS AND SEX is a candid collection of personal anecdotes and information that attempts to answer the above questions. It is targeted for young adults and their parents.

 Each chapter starts with a personal narrative that makes the topic easier to relate to and could be the start of a conversation. It is a light read, humorous and raunchy and yet imparts information.




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Lion Goes For A Haircut is available in 9 languages!

​Come in for a haircut! You choose.. We cut! says the sign outside a hair cutting saloon, so a lion walks in to do just that. But where is everyone? And who are these other lions staring at him?

​Jagadish and the
​talking plant

In the early 20th century, after making pathbreaking innovations in wireless communication, pioneering scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose (J.C. Bose) turned to the world of plants. Merging the boundaries of biology and physics, he became a forerunner of biophysics, inventing ingenious instruments to study plant intelligence. His research remains radical even today, more than 150 years after his birth. In this first-of-its-kind comic book, the maverick scientist’s journey is imagined through the eyes of Mimosa Pudica — the ‘touch-me-not’ plant he used extensively in his research. Extracts from a well-known speech and an entry from Bose’s own journal offer a direct glimpse into a fascinating mind. A crisp timeline gives an overview of his life, while humorous asides and quick facts pack in a punch.


   Scientific Publications
  1.  Kielian, M., Klimjack, M.R., Ghosh, S., and W. Duffus. 1996. Mechanisms of mutations inhibiting fusion and infection by Semliki Forest Virus. J. Cell Biol. 134:863-872
  2. Shome S.G. and Margaret Kielian.  2001. Differential roles of two conserved glycine residues in the fusion peptide of Semliki Forest Virus. Virology 279(1): 146-60
  3.  Lu YE, Eng C.H., Shome S.G., and Kielian, M. 2001.  In vivo generation and characterization of a soluble form of the Semliki Forest Virus fusion protein. J Virol. 75(17): 8329-39
  4. Manohar A., Shome S.G., Lamar J., Stirling, L., Iyer V., Pumiglia, K., and DiPersio, C.M. 2004. a3b1 integrin promotes keratinocyte cell survival through activation of a MEK/ERK signaling pathway. (First two authors contributed equally to publication.)  J. Cell Sci. 117(18): 4043-4054 

  Presentations at International Conferences
      Gordon Research Conference. Fibronectin, Integrins & related molecules. Ventura Beach Hotel, California, U.S.A.  2/4/2001- 2/9//2001

CORRUGATED STRUCTURES

Video Production from the 2011 Film Workshop at IISER Pune