The design for the cover (courtesy Sita Lakshminarayan), has been inspired by the Ramachandran plot. Its classic quadrants contain and constrain illustrations (clockwise from top right) of the most accurate charge density measurement of a C–H···O interaction done in India, a recent hot result (spherical salt), our most complex small molecule structure to date (sodium saccharin dihydrate, V=15000 Å3), one of our first protein structures (peanut lectin, 1980) and one of the larger crystals grown in India (for radiochemical purposes). The intricate motifs on the horizontal axis are kolam (Tamil), auspicious threshold designs that welcome a guest into an Indian home. Each pattern is drawn in a continuous line incorporating symmetry and infinity, themes dear to crystallographers. This particular image is known as Brahma’s knot, in itself supposed to be the ultimate in complexity, but now a recurring topic in contemporary scientific thought. The title is in Bank Gothic font, in use since the 1930’s, that is, as long as crystallography has been practised in India. For information please contact the artist at sita_lakshminarayan@yahoo.com.
Old series (1993-2017)
Editors: William L. Duax, Judith Flippen-Anderson

Contents of issue

Letter from the President

Letter from the President
Yuji Ohashi
 

IUCr journals news

The crystallographic fast Fourier transform. Recursive symmetry reduction
A. KudlickiM. RowickaZ. Otwinowski
 

IUCr journals news

Rietveld refinement of a wrong crystal structure
C. BuchsbaumM.U. Schmidt
 

IUCr journals news

Structures of a dimorphic pentacoordinate silicon complex
U. BöhmeI.C. Foehn
 

IUCr journals news

Crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mtFabD, a malonyl-CoA:ACP transacylase (MCAT)
H. GhadbaneA.K. Brown, L. Kremer, G.S. BesraK. Fütterer
 

IUCr journals news

Coherent X-ray scattering and lensless imaging at the European XFEL Facility
I.A. VartanyantsI.K. Robinson, I. McNulty, C. David, P. WochnerTh. Tschentscher
 

Special report

Crystallography in India
K. BiradhaP. Chakrabarti, N. Chandra, J. K. Datta Gupta, N. Gautham, T.N. Guru Row, K.V.R. Kishan, P. Krishna, K. Lal, S.C. Mande, N. Madhusudana, D. Pandey, S. Ranganathan, S.N. Rao, J.A.R.P. Sarma, M. Vijayan, K. Vyas and V.K. Wadhawan, Edited by: A. Nangia, D.M. Salunke, V. PattabhiG.R. Desiraju.
 

Obituary

Ljubo Golic (1932-2007)
Ivan Leban