Sevaram Bagga

S R Bagga:

Comrade Sevaram Bagga's demise is a great loss to the Association. The Head office of AILRSA in Ghaziabad was originally the house of Com.Bagga, bought by  AILRSA. Com. Bagga was a born Pehelwan (wrestler) who was not only instrumental in building up of AILRSA in the then Northern Railway, but also stood as a Guardian, guarding the militant organisation against all odds. He was also detained in prison, under the draconian provisions of " MISA",during Internal Emergency Period, besides, departmental Victimisation. A brave Comrade Whose Memories will remain in the History of AILRSA, forever.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela(26.09.1936-02.04.2018)

Anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies at 81

South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former first lady Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died.

She and her former husband Nelson Mandela, who were both jailed, were a symbol of the country's anti-apartheid struggle for three decades.

MrsMadikizela-Mandela was born in 1936 in the Eastern Cape - then known as Transkei.

She was a trained social worker when she met her future husband in the 1950s. They went on to have two daughters together.They were married for a total of 38 years, although for almost three decades of that time they were separated due to Mr Mandela's long imprisonment.

It was MrsMadikizela-Mandela who took his baton after he was jailed for life, becoming an international symbol of resistance to apartheid. She too was jailed for her role in the fight for justice and equality.

To her supporters, she became known affectionately as "Mother of the Nation".

"In the face of exploitation, she was a champion of justice and equality," "She as an abiding symbol of the desire of our people to be free".However, in later years her reputation became tainted legally and politically.

Stephen Hawking( 8 January 1942,14 March 2018)

Stephen Hawking - who died aged 76 - battled motor neurone disease to become one of the most respected and best-known scientists of his age.

A man of great humour, he became a popular ambassador for science and was always careful to ensure that the general public had ready access to his work.

Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. His father, a research biologist, had moved with his mother from London to escape German bombing.

Hawking grew up in London and St Albans and, after gaining a first-class degree in physics from Oxford, went on to Cambridge for postgraduate research in cosmology.As a teenager he had enjoyed horse-riding and rowing but while at Cambridge he was diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease which was to leave him almost completely paralysed.

As he was preparing to marry his first wife, Jane, in 1964 his doctors gave him no more than two or three years of life.

But the disease progressed more slowly than expected. The couple had three children, and in 1988 - although Hawking was by now only able to speak with a voice synthesiser following a tracheotomy - he had completed A Brief History of Time - a layman's guide to cosmology.

It sold more than 10 million copies, although its author was aware that it was dubbed "the most popular book never read".

Hawking discovered the phenomenon which became known as Hawking radiation, where black holes leak energy and fade to nothing. He was renowned for his extraordinary capacity to visualise scientific solutions without calculation or experiment.But it was perhaps his "theory of everything", suggesting that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws, that attracted most attention.

"This complete set of laws can give us the answers to questions like how did the universe begin," he said. "Where is it going and will it have an end? If so, how will it end? If we find the answers to these questions, we really shall know the mind of God."

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He once wrote that he had motor neurone disease for practically all his adult life but said that it had not stopped him having an attractive family and being successful in his work.

"It shows," he said, "that one need not lose hope."

Dr E C G Sudarshan (16.09.1931-13.05.2018)

Renowned physicist Dr E C G Sudarshan  (16.09.1931-13.05.2018)

EnnackalChandy George Sudarshan, professor at the Texas University and acclaimed scientist, passed away in Texas on 13, may 2018.The 86-year-old physicist was born in Kottayam on September 16, 1931.

The renowned physicist E C G Sudarshan, who proved Albert Einstein wrong, was recommended for the Nobel Prize nine times but never awarded.

Sudarshan specialised in Quantum Optics and linked Vedanta with modern physics. He has proved Albert Einsteins theory on the speed of light was wrong as tachyon can move faster than light.

Einstein showed that it is impossible for particles (or space ships) to be accelerated up to or beyond the speed of light because of the infinite energy required. Sudarshan and his colleagues suggested, however, that if particles were created initially with faster-than-light speed in particle collisions no acceleration or infinite energy would be necessary -- something not possible for space ships.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan offered his condolences to the family.Dr E C G Sudarshan was great son of Kerala and made great contributions to modern Physics. He was a philosopher and a physicist. His death is a great loss for Kerala and world of science, Vijayan told.