by Amrita Priya | Apr 13, 2024
(April 13, 2024) When Dr Ashok Gadgil went to the US in 1973 to do Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, he was struck by the stark differences between the United States and India. One striking contrast was the excessive use of fertilizers on American front lawns – a sharp...
by Namrata Srivastava | Jan 4, 2024
(January 4, 2024) “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills,...
by Namrata Srivastava | Dec 9, 2022
(December 9, 2022) Growing up, The Jetsons was one of my favourite cartoons. I was fascinated by the futurist gadgets on the show – especially their flying cars. And quite recently, I had an opportunity to interact with a scientist who is actually working on the...
by Global Indian | Jun 26, 2021
From being a soft-spoken girl, who used to marvel at the chemicals and their reactions in her father’s laboratory, to a trailblazer in dental nanomaterials, Sumita Mitra’s rise to fame has been nothing short of phenomenal. This Indian-American chemist...
