Born in Talapady village in Karnataka, a South Western state of India, Balakrishna Bhat had most of his grooming and early education in his native environs. He later moved to graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore and obtained BTech, M.E and PhD, all in Metallurgy. Having settled in the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, DMRL at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh since 1974, Dr Bhat as a scientist, has made significant contributions to research on advanced materials and systems. He was a visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, USA during 1987-90. Dr Bhat has been a recipient of several awards for his professional contributions and has published several research papers in international journals and also patented some of his inventions. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Dr Bhat was a participant in the discussions in the Beyond War Foundation during his stay at JPL, and has a keen interest in analysing societal problems. He practices and teaches yoga as learnt from Swami Ramdev.
He has also published “Disunity or Unity?”, a penetrative exploration of the wide range of structures, methods and processes which create unification and also of those which cause disunity. You can find the kindle edition of this book at http://www.amazon.com/Dynamics- Unification-Balakrishna-Bhat-ebook/dp/B017JWEM1O. His other books are “Explosive Compaction of Powders and composites” and “Engineering Our Way to Wealth”.