Dr. Kishore Paknikar

Edison showed that invention works only when method, money and markets align, a lesson India needs to master. Thomas Alva Edison is often celebrated as a prolific inventor, but rarely as an inventor of the process of invention itself. The popular image is of sudden inspiration. However, the reality was far more deliberate. Edison believed that invention could be designed, organized as a process, and executed through a method. He transformed creativity from a matter of chance into a...

The Indore water tragedy exposes a chronic failure of urban governance that sits uneasily with India’s 2047 development ambitions. The recent deaths in Indore following the consumption of contaminated drinking water shocked the country not merely because lives were lost, but because they were lost in a city celebrated for cleanliness and civic management. The incident led to hundreds of hospitalisations and multiple fatalities, with official and unofficial counts differing. This was not an...

India@2047 will not be achieved by assembling borrowed technologies, but by owning the science that makes development durable. Every New Year invites reflection, but some years demand resolution. As India steps deeper into its journey toward becoming a developed nation by the centenary of Independence, the role of science and technology becomes not just important, but decisive. Infrastructure, manufacturing, and services will matter, but none of them can advance sustainably without deep,...