Rupak Bardhan Roy

From Kenya to Nepal, a digitally native generation is challenging the ideological foundations on which modern politics has long rested. Between 2024 and 2026, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, a series of rapid, leaderless political uprisings erupted, fundamentally driven by citizens under the age of thirty. Commonly dubbed as the ‘Global Gen Z uprisings,’ these movements systematically unseated ruling regimes, dismantled political dynasties, and forced constitutional re-evaluations....

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...