With my interest to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education for the Next Generation, a new book titled "Geek Nation" caught my attention.
The author Angela Saini is a British Science Journalist born to Indian parents. Saini writing have been published in Wired, New Scientist etc.
This book is more a Science travelogue of India (Geek Nation).
Saini visits:
i) Space Science - ISRO, Trivandrum and explores how the Communication Satellites laid the foundation for India's Communication revolution.
ii) Genetic Science - National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow and explores how Banana (India is the largest producer) shelf life extending research could reduce the wastage.
iii) Information Science - Infosys, Bangalore and meets Narayana Murthy. Saini calls Narayana Murthy as Geek God. And also, explores how Speaking Web research done in IBM India could help India, which has lower literacy.
iv) Nuclear Science - Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Trombay and explores how researchers are experimenting Thorium as an alternate to Uranium. This could help to reduce the external dependency of Uranium.
She also visits and explores - Ancient Science, Medicinal Science and more.
Overall it is a good read to know the past Applied Science of India, with a current touch and with an eye on the future.
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