This collection of papers reflects the problems that I have worked on over the years. With hindsight, it might appear that there had been a grand and premeditated design to address the outstanding problems concerning the origin and evolution of the universe. But it was not really like that. I did not have a master plan; rather I followed my nose and did whatever looked interesting and possible at the time. There has been a beat change in the status of general relativity and cosmology in the last thirty years. Cosmology was thought of as a pseudoscience where wild speculation was unconstrained by any possible observations. That their standing today is very different is partly due to the great expansion in the range of observations made possible by modern technology. But it is also because we have made tremendous progress on the theoretical side, and this is where I can claim to have made a modest contribution
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