Personal experiences of a University teacher-scientist bring to light the travails, triumphs, and occasional failures in research. The authors research studies on ionosphere D-region, dust-ion chemical models for meso-strato-tropo (MST) region, solar UV-B radiation, atmosphere aerosols, electric conductivity, MST radar echoes etc. enabled him to participate in International symposium and conferences in GDR (1984), Czechoslovakia (1989), USA, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Austria, Taiwan and France. Starting from the years of World War II, the narration covering a period...