Raj Gopal Katju, scion of an Allahabad lawyer family is an age-old Chemical Engineer who after graduating from the IIT Kharagpur in 1963. surprisingly finds himself still in the regular service at the age of 70. He has over 45 years of industrial and. consultation experience with Indian Rayon Corporation, Veraval. Camphor & Allied Products Ltd. Bareilly, Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd., Baroda and Kumar Organic Products Ltd., Bangalore and Baroda. In between official work he has penned anecdotes, essays and short stories in Hindi and English, many of which have been published in newspapers and magazines. He has also authored 4 books each in the above languages. EXPERIMENTS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS SAILING THROUGH LIFE IN AND OUT OF FACTORIES.