Homage to Jayant Narlikar | Soma Marla

Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar a doyen of Astrophysics and Cosmology has passed away in the night of May 19, 2025. An astrophysicist and emeritus Professor for Astronomy and Astrophysiscs at the Inter-University centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Mumbai. At an early age, as a Masters student at Cambridge University, UK he worked with renowned astrophysicist Sir Alfred Hoyle and developed the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle-Narlikar theory. The theory synthesises