Dr Mudhusudana has made outstanding contribution to the physics of liquid crystals. He has observed a number of interesting phenomena for the first time including electromechanical coupling effects in cholesterics and curvature induced suppression of the smectic A phase. He has also made significant theoretical contributions on the importance of antiferroelectric correlations in smectics, relevance of flexoelectricity for a number of striking electro hydrodynamical instabilities and a molecular mechanism for the re-entrant nematic phase.