Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'.

The latest of a venerable franchise of docu-soaps, it opens, like its predecessors, with a voiceover giving the audience the lay of the promised land.

I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!

A contact manifold (M,𝜁) is a (2n+1)-dimensional manifold M equipped with a smooth maximally nonintegrable hyperplane field 𝜁⊂TM, i.e., locally, 𝜁= ker 𝛼, where 𝛼 is a 1-form which satisfies 𝛼∧(d𝛼)ⁿ ne 0. Since d𝛼 is a nondegenerate 2-form when restricted to 𝜁, contact geometry is customarily viewed as the odd-dimensional sibling of symplectic geometry. Although contact geometry in dimensions > 5 is still in an incipient state, contact structures in dimension 3 are much better understood, largely due to the fact that symplectic geometry in two dimensions is just the study of area.