One Tuesday in late autumn, a dog pushed through the alley and nosed at the bookshop’s back door. Aswin, returning from the grocer, heard a muffled whine and found a small brindled creature with one ear flopped and a paper tag curled around its collar. The tag had a single word scrawled in ink: “Remember.”

: Conducted specialized studies at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the Raman Research Institute.

🌌 From the Banks of the Nila to the Asteroid Belt: The Stellar Journey of Dr. Aswin Sekhar

: He made breakthrough contributions on how gravitational resonances (such as those involving Jupiter and Saturn) affect the paths of cometary dust and meteoroids.

The pivot from academia to the United Nations marks the most significant chapter in career. Joining the UN Office for Sustainable Development, Sekhar began bridging the gap between theoretical science and actionable policy.