JOHN CHACKO MENON

Hope you have read my previous post "SINE, COS, TAN, LOG AND LOGJAM ". If not please read it.

There was another contribution to the logjam. That again comes from the cos thetha - sin thetha teacher. Just before leaving  after that devastating first class he made an announcement."All of you should buy the Physics text book by John Chacko Menon !!!!!!!" I was thrown of my seat. John Chacko Menon ???? A staunch follower of Christ, I could not append a Menon to my Christian belief. I could not believe that a person can have a name like that. "Cultural integration", "integration of faith", and such integrating terms were yet to be coined as there weren't any sort of disintegrations those days other than that of the radio active variety. Later in life I heard about Cherian Nair immortalized by the immortal Kuthiravattom Pappu in the movie "Poochakkoru Mookkuthi". After that I heard Amar Akbar Antony. Then those three great men," Sagar Alias Jacky" !!! (Throughout that Mohan Lal film people searched for the elusive Mr Alias). But this John Chacko Menon was really devastating for the 16 year old boy of the early seventies. It took me some more days to come to grips with John Chacko Menon. This John was Prof K.K John of S.B college. I had the good fortune of being his student during my BSc. He was a great teacher. I owe a lot to him. He taught Physics with incredible clarity. And the Chacko was Prof K.C Chacko. When I joined the Physics dept of CMS college, he was the H.O.D.  And Prof Menon was in one of the NSS colleges. And to sum up, I bought the book by John Chacko Menon and realised that Physics is a very secular discipline.