A reading room for essays, conversations, lectures, and the books that shape my thinking about science, education, and society.
Questions worth pausing over: science, power, education, work, and the future of research.
Taxpayers fund research, yet organizations pay again to publish and access it. Is the current publishing model sustainable? And what should India do next?....
A reflection on how China became a world knowledge power engine, pushing behind the US and other Western countries, and what Indian universities can learn from it…
Busyness is not progress: work driven by purpose builds mastery; work driven by fear leads to burnout...
I read across physics, history, philosophy, education, literature, and technology to understand how people build knowledge and institutions.
Explores how international student mobility, branch campuses, for-profit models, and global university rankings are fueling a worldwide "brain race" and transforming the landscape of higher education.
📅 December 12-13, 2025
National Conference on Advances in Materials Science (NCAMS-2025)
REVA University, Bengaluru
📅 March 21-22, 2025
International Workshop on Quantum Mathematics & Computing (QMAC-2025)
Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
📅 February 4, 2025
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
MIT Bengaluru
📅 September 27-28, 2019
Workshop on Cryogenics and Superconductivity (WOCS-2019)
JIIT, Noida
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