Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist.
Narlikar was born in Kolhapur, India onJuly 1938 in a Karhade family of scholars. His father, Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar, was a mathematician who served as a professor and the Head of the Department of Mathematics at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Jayants mother, Sumati Narlikar, was a scholar of Sanskrit.
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