Jahnavi Phalkey harnesses a historian's discipline and a storyteller's craft to make science accessible to everyone—as it should be
Asking the right questions has always been important to Jahnavi Phalkey. In fact, the realisation, early on in her research work, that the questions she was asking were not the ones she was seeking, led her to change the direction of her career.
This took her to the Georgia Institute of Technology, US, where she immersed herself in the history of science and technology of contemporary India. “To date, I remain completely fascinated with it,” she says. “Especially if you’re working on India, it’s a massively open field, we don’t have a critical mass of scholars working on recent and contemporary history of science in India.”
(This story appears in the 22 March, 2024 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)