Symbols Of India

Professor Hem Shanker Ray, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, has done his MSc and PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Toronto, Canada. He was assistant professor at IIT Kanpur, senior technologist and manager of R&D, Pilkington Bros. ltd, professor of metallurgical engineering and dean of students affairs at IIT Kharagpur, director of the Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneshwar, an emeritus scientist at Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata and a member of the editorial board of Everyman's Science and Research Advisory Council, JNARDDC, Nagpur. He has won several awards for his work on metallurgy and has published many papers and articles. He also writes fiction, in English and Bengali and currently lives in Kolkata.