The IISER Kolkata Alumni Association’s Short Summer Courses (SSC) programme fills gaps in traditional science education by bringing together Indian university students and early-career researchers from around the world. Starting this July 2025, SSC hopes to promote academic innovation and democratise scientific knowledge throughout India by offering engaging, state-of-the-art courses. (Published in India Bioscience on June 2025)  

Dragonflies are one of the marvels of natural creation. The secrets of their flight dynamics, mate selection, predation, and visual information processing are all awe inspiring. During a trip to Puri in India, I had an interesting encounter with a group of dragonflies. A few of their pictures revealed some hidden mysteries about the nanostructures present on their wings. (Published in Inscight in May 2025)  

The field of fiber optics traces its transformation from a 19th century parlor trick to the foundation of our global communication network. However this revolutionary technology is far from attaining its maximum potential. Exploration of aspects of nonlinear fiber optical systems and harnessing their capabilities for superior communication systems is an ongoing pursuit unleashing a lot of excitement in the scientific community today. (Link to the LinkedIn post)   

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for contributions in advancement of attosecond science. The prize recognizes the use of ultrashort optical pulses to probe the dynamics of electrons in atoms and chemical molecules. These scientific achievements in physics are truly remarkable and pave the way for future discoveries. Congratulations to the winners! (Link  to the LinkedIn post)

What is beautiful and what is not? How to define or identify beauty? Man has asked and tried to answer these questions through the ages. Nevertheless, despite being captivating and transcendental, the nature of beauty turned out to be highly elusive.

(Published in Cogito in August 2021) 

About two-thirds of young dating adults have experience with on-and-off relationships that often seats them in an emotional rollercoaster wreaking havoc on their mental well-being. This analysis tries to investigate the dynamics of these relationships with an over-simplified physical model. (Published in Cogito in August 2021) 

All of us encountered the term photosynthesis in our high school science textbooks. In a nutshell, photosynthesis convert atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbohydrates in the presence of water and sunlight. Through this process, the energy in sunlight is converted into chemical energy stored in the bonds of the carbohydrates that can be used by the plant at a later time. what if we can mimic the ingenious idea of plants, of trapping light energy as chemical energy, in our labs? It would be a path to a completely sustainable energy technology. 

Mathematics is full of mysteries. The Collatz conjecture, is a long standing conjecture in mathematics that is elusively simple to state. Here we dig into this conjecture and try to visualize its properties in a non-traditional manner. Read on to find out about a harmonious marriage between mathematics and art. (Published in Cogito in April 2020) 

When a historian of a future time (say 2200) starts writing the history of today, s/he will definitely have a lot of content and excitement in describing today’s world. The amazing things that are being developed today are paving the way for a new epoch of science and technology. But if we do not take care of the existing loopholes in our systems today, there is a possibility that that historian will never exist; as our civilization might cease to be. (Published in Confluence  in May, 2020)

What is truth? In general, anything that is in accordance with fact or reality can be designated as truth. But don't you think this characterization of truth is deeply naive? For example, I can further ask, what is meant by a fact? The faculty of the language system developed by human beings, disallows the existence of a precise answer to these questions by construction. Albeit the general premise of the meaning of truth is quite vague, I envisage that having a better conception of truth, requires its efficient classification.