C Radhakrishnan is an established author in the Malayalam language. A scientist-turned writer, he has contributed to all branches of creative literature besides popular science. He has been honoured by India's National Akademi of Letters, the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and almost every other body promoting creative literature of the language he writes. He is the winner of Ezhuthachan Award (the highest recognition given to authors in the Malayalam language), and also the Moortidevi Award of the Bharatiya Jnanapith Trust for the best creative work in Indian languages. A multi-faceted personality, he has worked as scientist, popular science journalist, film director, columnist, and editor of national and literary journals.

Born on 15 Feb 1939 in Chamravattom village in Kerala, C. Radhakrishnan became the Winner of Best Student Gold Medal at Achutha Varier High School, Ponnani, winner of Madras University Sharpe Scholarship - Inter: Zamorin's College, Calicut, and Winner of Top Rank Gold medal - Graduation: Physics, Zamorin's College, Calicut - l. PG: Post Graduation - Applied Physics; Research (Astrophysics). The author also won in every literary competition during his academic career. He translated Daniel Defoe (M. Flanders) and Lincoln Bernet (The Universe and Doctor Einstein) at age seventeen, and David O.Woodbury's Outward Bound for Space in 1962.

C. Radhakrishnan became scientific Assistant at Astrophysical Observatory, Kodaikanal in 1960 and became officer-in-Charge, World-Wide Seismology Centre, Pune in 1962. He helped launch and establish Science Today (Times of India), the first popular science magazine of India, at a young age of 24, and later held senior positions with national print media organs. He was also the science Editor of Link Magazine and Patriot Daily, Delhi, 1968-'72.

The author is a well known Vedantic scholar and has written numerous articles on the subject. He was the editor of Malayalam magazine Piravi published by the School of Bhagavad Gita. He has done an exhaustive work on the Bhagavad Gita titled “Gitadarsanam” which is very popular in Malayalam language. The present book “Bhagavad Gita: Modern Reading” critically approaches yoga sastra in the light of modern science and, at the same time evaluates modern science vis-à-vis yoga sastra.

His research on problems fundamental to astrophysics gave rise to a monograph titled "Unity of Space-Matter Manifestations", published as early as in January 1988. "Stuff and Style of the Universe", a book which is a popular science elaboration of the monograph, was published Nov. 2002 by Hi-Tech Books. The first Scientist-President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, expressed appreciation of the work done, and the model attracted world attention. An article based on the book was also published in 'Science India' (ISSN 0972-8287) in two issues, which came out on September 2012 and October 2012 (Vol. 15 No. 9 and Vol. 15 No. 10 respectively). Continued researches resulted in the book "The Secret Behind the Universe", published July 2016, in which the original ideas were further refined and updated. A condensed version of the physics section of this book was published in January 2017 as an article titled "Avyakta: The Fabric of Space" in the Prespacetime Journal Vol 7 Issue 16 (Prespacetime Journal (ISSN: 2153-8301), QuantumDream Inc., P.O. Box 267, Stony Brook, NY 11790-0267, USA; is a physics journal which focuses on the origin, nature and mechanism of spacetime and its possible connection to a prespacetime; and models and experimental results on elemental particles, fundamental forces including gravity and related topics.) The entire article is available online to read or download from the journal website, and can be accessed through this site.

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The author and physicist's entire article "Avyakta: The fabric of space" published on 06/01/2017 in the Prespacetime Journal (Vol 7 Issue 16).
The earliest research which lead to the Avyakta article: Unity of Space Matter Manifestations (the author's monograph published in January 1988)