BRILLIANT blue flames light up the night sky above Kawah Ijen, casting an eerie electric glow as they flow down the sides of the active volcano in remote Indonesia.
Hot sulphuric gases – escaping at high pressure through cracks in the mountain – ignite upon contact with air, burning a fantastic, iridescent blue. This strange natural phenomenon can also create “blue lava” – rivers of burning liquid sulphur that stream from the vast crater.
The gases burn day and night at this spectacular volcano in the extreme east of Java island, but its characteristic blue hue can only be observed
Katherine Abell and Yusuf Hamied Amit Roy 
The album gifted to Yusuf Hamied Amit Roy 
Todd visit to Cipla in Bombay in 1960 (from the album) Amit Roy 
Abell-Hamied plaqueAmit Roy 
Sanders-Hamied plaque Amit Roy 
Yusuf Hamed & Katherine Abell meet students Amit Roy 
Yusuf Hamied and Jeremy Sanders meet studentsAmit Roy 
(From left) Katherine Abell. Jeremy Sanders. Deborah Prentice. and Yusuf Hamied Amit Roy 
James Keeler Amit Roy 
Shankar Balasubramanian with Yusuf Hamed Amit Roy 
