The ghats of Varanasi now host the world’s first floating CNG station and a hydrogen-powered motorboat — a striking example of India’s rapid strides in science and technology. These innovations reduce emissions, improve river transport sustainability, and showcase homegrown engineering. Yet many Indians remain unaware of this milestone; wider communication and public engagement are needed so citizens can celebrate and support such green advances.
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
The Indian Chemical Imagination-Part 1 How did Indians understand, transform and control matter before the modern science of chemistry emerged? When we hear the word chemistry , we immediately think of laboratories, test tubes, molecular structures, the periodic table, spectroscopy, and carefully controlled experiments. But chemistry, as a modern academic discipline, is relatively young. Human beings were transforming matter thousands of years before the word "chemistry" acquired its present meaning. They smelted ores, produced metals, made glass, prepared medicines, fermented food and beverages, extracted dyes, manufactured pigments, prepared perfumes, and developed methods to purify and transform substances. India was no exception. In fact, the Indian subcontinent possesses a remarkably long record of technological practices involving metals, minerals, ceramics, dyes, medicines, salts, fermentation and other materials. The important question, however, is not simply: ...


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