Dr. S T Lakshmikumar was awarded the Ph. D degree by the Indian Institute of Science in 1981 and worked as a scientist at the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi from 1983 to 2015. His published monographs are The quest for new materials and Experimenting with the quantum world (Published by Vigyan Prasar), How well do we know it?, On walking the knife edge of science and religion, An unknown scientist in the ivory tower, India : My India, The lizard in the ear and forty modern variants, Me and My Universe and a novel Vaarana (Published at Pothi).