The following part by me is not credited to me.  An oversight of course!May please be correct.

CMN

They were walking through a very narrow corridor. There were escalator but they were still. Rita couldn't miss the smile on Kim's face. Kim looked questioningly.

Rita whispered, 'What's the matter? I am, anyway, happy to find you smiling in these circumstances. '

"Oh nothing. But did you notice that these people don't part their hair in the middle? Isn't it strange? Then look at the hair length, there seems to be more or less two well defined groups. The male have very short hair like us while female have only shoulder- length hair.Look at those lower rung females, most of them have much longer hair. Do they wear some kind of wing?"

Rita also couldn't help smiling at the observation. Symmetry should be the choice by default. So unless there is some special reason, why should anybody part hair on the side? In fact at Maya, they kept little no hair at all. They had to wear head gear outside, and there was radiation protection indoor so there was no need for any protective wig or anything. In any case , the growth rate was so small. Kim's amusement seemed justified.

Kim asked, "Rita, don't you find it funny?"

Before Rita could answer, one of the accompanists beckoned them to the left. Rita, turning sharply to the left and pulling Kim by hand along, said ,'Something to do with evolution? May be they require hair, as you hinted, for protection from UV? May be this parting of hair has something to do with hierarchy. See, one of them has parted on the other side of head?" She was happy that she had found a flaw in Kim's observation.

Kim's forehead furrowed. Rita wasn't sure if it had something to do with her statement but she caught Kim's line of sight. He was looking at the hall in front.

It was a huge conference hall, oval in shape. The back panels were actually continuously running screen. They projected the whole hall in every alternate segment so that anybody could see everybody. There were already some people sitting. All looked grave
Arvind Mishra <arvind_drmishra@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Yes Michael,please see the story as pointed by Dr.Nautiyal here:
http://indiascifiarvind.blogspot.com/
regards,
arvind

CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL <cmnautiyal@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Dear Michael,

 

This just goes to show that you are concious to the development in other countries and also that Indian Sci-fi is coming of age.

 

Did you notice our experiment in joint Sci-fi writing?  Dr. Misra pointed out that another group has also done it independentaly (international). 

 

Chandra Mohan Nautiyal

miwoleit <miwoleit@yahoo.de> wrote:

Dear friends,
Dear Arvind,

thanks for kind words.

I would like to include Arvind's article on SF in Hindi in
our coming online magazin InterNova and I would be happy to
have your permission. Please let me know.

Furthermore InterNova will include a news section with up-to-
date information from local sf scenes all over the world. If
somebody is here who would like to occassionaly write small
reports about what's going on in Indian science fiction - new
magazines and publications, new outstanding works, national sf
awards, activities of local sf associations, things like that -
please contact me. The reports don't have to be long. We plan
to start with this section around the turn of the year.

All the best & namaste!
Michael

Dr. Chandra Mohan Nautiyal

MSc (UOR/IIT-R); PhD (PRL/ GU); FGS (I); F-NCSTC-NW; Member Executive, Vigyan Parishad

 

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