THE ADVENTURE

by Avanthi.N
 Jayant Narlikar
◦ Jayant Narlikar was born on July 19,1938.
◦ He is an astrophysicist and a cosmologist.
◦ Jayant Narlikar received India’s second
highest civilian honor Padma Vibhushan and
many other awards like Padma Bhushan,Rashtra
Bhushan, Maharashtra Bhushan
Plot
◦ “The Adventure", this story looks at the main idea of parallel worlds.
◦ The story is around a historical event, and the protagonist
is Gangadharpant. Jayant Narlikar's narrative teaches us
how Gangadharpant, Professor Gaitonde, travels through
time. The professor wonders what would have happened
to India if the Marathas had not permitted the East India
Company to stay in Mumbai.
Characters
Gangadharpant Gaitonde:
◦ He is the protagonist of the story, he is portrayed as a history professor in Pune.
◦ He has a terrible accident that sends him into a different world for 60 hours.

Rajendra Deshpande:
◦ He is the second central character of the story. Using catastrophe theory and quantum theory he explains
what happens to Professor Gaitonde by describing no determinism in quantum theory.
Summary
◦ The story mentions Professor Gaitonde, a historian. When he goes back in time, he finds something new.
He discovers himself in Mumbai, which he has never seen before. The Mumbai in which he is now is not
the real Mumbai, and surprisingly it’s very clean, and he discovers train’s carriages called ‘Greater
Bombay Metropolitan Railway.’ The staff included British commanders.
◦ The East India Company Headquarters welcomed Gaitonde from the train. Surprisingly his son’soffice
was not also there. So he went to the Library and read about the Panipat fight. Reading the information,
he discovers they are not accurate. Curiously, he reads that British rule never reached India.
◦ After the Library, he went to the Azad Maidan and fought with the crowd. Gaitonde fell unconscious at
Azad Maidan after being thrown off stage. So he asks Professor Deshpande for clarification. He
discovers that reality is not as we perceive it during his tour. So fact has numerous manifestations or
aspects.
Summary
◦ He’d escaped his time journey. He awoke in a hospital bed, facing Professor Rajendra Deshpande.He told
Rajendra everything that happened to him, and Rajendra listened attentively. He demonstrated to
Rajendra Deshpande that he’d been elsewhere and was not hallucinating. It was a tattered page from the
other world’s history book about Vishwasrao escaping death.
◦ Professor Gaitonde was curious to know why he had gone through such an experience. Rajendra
explained that the electron may be found here in one realm and elsewhere in another. Worlds have their
locations, and a parallel universe may exist if the observer knows the exact placement of the electrons in
each world.
◦ Hence Professor Gaitonde spent two days in an alternate World. He pondered the catastrophe theory and
its application in battle when he hit a lorry, and the Panipat fight also stirred his intellect.
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