Rupak Bardhan Roy

Caught in the crosshairs of global nativism, Indians abroad must confront both prejudice from without and pitfalls within. Over the past few years, tensions over immigration are intensifying, and today we Indians find ourselves at the very center of this storm- primarily across major English-speaking democracies. Last September—some of the largest anti-immigration rallies were organized in Indian immigrant heavy countries like United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia. Under the banner “Unite the...

From a Caltech lecture hall to modern cleanrooms, Feynman’s vision of the atomic frontier continues to guide scientific ambition even today. During the fourth year of my doctoral research, my Ph.D. advisor gifted me a humongous printed volume. It was an IEEE anthology of selected academic papers, on microfabrication and miniaturization, published over a period of 50 years. That beauty started with a transcript of Professor Richard Feynman’s famous classic talk given on December 29, 1959 at...

The danger is not technology itself, but the quiet, unquestioned surrender to its conveniences. A few months ago, ChatGPT unveiled a new health feature that allows users to upload medical test reports for analysis, carefully stopping just short of formal clinical advice. On paper, it was a modest extension of an already ubiquitous tool. In practice, it signalled something larger: the quiet expansion of machines into domains once considered deeply human. Around the same time, a television news...