Dr.
Chaitanya Giri is a Cosmochemist/Astrobiologist at the Earth-Life
Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. He doubles
as a visiting scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the
Carnegie Institution of Washington in USA. He is a regular contributor
to Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations on matters
pertaining to geo-strategy, technology forecasting, space advocacy and
science.Views are personal.