Narlikar, J. V.2012-03-092012-03-091976-01-11http://hdl.handle.net/11007/1132It gives me great pleasure to attend this Seminar dedicated to the^Diamond Jubilee celebrations of my alma mater. I have happy recollections of attending lectures in this very lecture theatre as a student in 1955-57. While talking about general relativity may 1 also point out that this subject is about as old as this University. The first paper on this subject by Einstein' " appeared in Novem- ber 1915.enGeneral relatityAstrophysicsArticle