While i thank the HT for the coverage on the deliberations at Varanasi,I wish to point out certain discrepacies with regard to my particulars.I am a very Voluntarily retired Central Govt. officer. Floated my own science organisation to popularise science as educating the laymen is my foremost objective. I dont just write in Tamil I write in English as well. One of stories appeared in the erstwhile Science Today. My science fictions are not just about the usual space-travel etal. Ideas like experience machine, postulation of new disease particle and new disease, an engineering idea by which the space of the rooms of the house can be shortened or lengthened by interconnectivity. This is the idea of the story i have narrated for the HT. My aim is not to copy any western SF and to write original stuff to make it globally acceptable. My stores have more technical content to educate the readers on science However i accept that bit about the desirability of having a wider audience.The best way is to translate quality regional ficitons into English I will be coming out with a collection of English stories.