Proffessor K Sridhar likes to call himself a maverick. Despite being a hard-core physicist for over 30 years, he refuses to claim monopoly over the title. “I am not territorial,” says the professor of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, about his job. “I like to experiment and enjoy doing different things,” he adds.

At the upcoming Mumbai Local event, the 55-year-old physicist will speak about why he started dabbling with literature at the peak of his professional career, while exploring the parallels between the two fields.