Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy is the author of eight books including the bestselling Jeh: A Life of JRD Tata, Sugar in Milk: Lives of Eminent Parsis, the critically acclaimed Barons of Banking: Glimpses of Indian Banking History and Zubin Mehta: A Musical Journey, the authorized biography of music conductor, Zubin Mehta. He was educated at Hindu College, Delhi University, and the Delhi School of Economics. He has written the script for Nani: The Crusader, a documentary on legal luminary, Nani Palkhivala. His most recent book was The Magnificent Diwan: The Life and Times of Sir Salar Jung I. He currently resides in New Delhi.
<div>Homi J. Bhabha: A Life is the first full-fledged biography of the theoretical physicist who founded India’s nuclear programme. A Renaissance man, Bhabha was also a lover of music and an accomplished painter. </div><div>A scientist and aesthete who was equally at home in the world of science and the arts, he was both a visionary and a doer—a man of thought as well as a man of action. A great deal is known of his astonishing intellect, but less about his human side. This biography combines both aspects of him, presenting a more complete picture of the man. </div><div>Bhabha’s life story also provides a good vehicle for telling the story of Indian science and the foundations of India’s atomic energy programme. This biography is as much an early history of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and India’s atomic energy programme as it is an account of Bhabha’s life and work. Meticulously researched and narrated in rich, human, political and scientific detail, this biography tells the story of one of twentieth-century India’s greatest scientists and the country’s greatest-ever science administrator. </div><div>First full-fledged biography of Homi Bhabha with unique insights into his life not only as a scientist but also as an artist and, above all, a person. Meticulously researched narrative with extensive archival material, including Bhabha’s personal letters to and from his closest personal and professional collaborators along with never-seenbefore pictures from the life of this enigmatic man. </div><div>An engaging and detailed chronicle of the development of Indian science, particularly its nuclear energy programme, </div><div>through the pioneering scientific institutions Bhabha founded and nurtured, including the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, </div><div>the Department of Atomic Energy and the Atomic Energy Establishment of Trombay.</div><div><br></div>
