Every technological advance has changed the way we work. With the plough, the hunter-gatherers became farmers. The spinning jenny and the power loom of the Industrial Revolution transformed farmers into factory workers. With the digital revolution, white-collar workers became software experts. …

A gas discharge is one of the processes that create a plasma, a gas with a good fraction of molecules ionized. …

Several reviewers have hailed Tony Joseph’s “Early Indians” (Juggernaut Books, December 2018), as an important book. It adds indisputable evidence from genetics, archaeology and linguistic data to prove that the Indus Valley civilisation gave physical structure to modern Indian society. In contrast, the Aryans put their stamp on their language…

Every Sunday afternoon, my family get together for a Zoom meeting. The participants, apart from my wife and myself are my two children, their wives and their children, all of whom live far away from us. …

During the early days of the Plasma Physics Programme, the forerunner of the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), it became apparent that capacity building in universities in plasma physics was essential to generate the human resource necessary for the development of future programmes. The first major effort in initiating Universities…

Gandhiji believed that everyone should create the resources to feed and clothe themselves. He wrote in Young India, (15–11–1928): “For the universal realization of this ideal, it was necessary, that the means of production of elementary necessaries of life remain in the control of the masses …. …

The invention of methods to produce non-equilibrium plasma at atmospheric pressure liberated plasma technology from the oppressive confines of vacuum systems and paved the way for an explosion of applications in sectors transcending the traditional ones. The non-equilibrium implies a different temperature for the electrons, ions and neutral molecular components…

“The amazing thing about technology is that it is a great leveller; it recognizes no caste, creed or religion”: so said Mukesh Ambani in the India Today Conclave in April 2017. The reality is that the inequality in the distribution of income and wealth has peaked in present-day society. UN…

This is an appreciation of the book “The Nature of Technology” by Brian Arthur, a leading thinker on technology, the economy, and complexity science. The book was brought out in 2009 by Free Press, a unit of Simon & Schuster, Inc. W. Brian Arthur, a Ph.D. …