The last fifteen years have seen the most spectacular rise of a class of materials initially known as the hybrid halide perovskites, with the field quickly evolving to encompass all-inorganic halide perovskites and double perovskites, low-dimensional hybrid halide materials, and quantum dots. With intense worldwide research activities over the last decade, photovoltaic, light-emissive, and detection properties of this class of materials have reached superlative performance levels within this exceptionally short period and have taken the world by surprise. I shall discuss some historical aspects of this field of study, followed by some of our recent results^1-3 to exemplify the excitement in this field in terms of discovering new materials and material properties. If time permits, I shall touch upon another exciting field comprising chiral systems^4-6 where some of the systems can even be made ferroelectrics.

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