# Dwaipayan Banerjee

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India’s First Computers | Part 1: A Historian’s Tragedy

In the first of a 3-part series, we discuss the origins of India’s quest, first to procure and then to build a homegrown computer in India. Coming very close to the Indian independence, this is the period that is more closely associated with the birth of India’s nuclear programme. Dr Banerjee’s bo‮…

India's pipeline to Silicon Valley with Dwaipayan Banerjee

Text the show here! It only flows one way. References and suggested readings: Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2026. Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution. Princeton University Press.  Dwai Banerjee’s faculty page @dwai_banerjee on X, @dwaibanerjee on Instagram  Support‮…

India’s First Computers | Part 2: TIFRAC & IBM’s Double Game

In the mid-1950s, while the world was still reeling from the dawn of the atomic age, a group of visionary scientists in a makeshift barracks in Mumbai were chasing a different kind of power: computational sovereignty. This episode dives into the incredible story of TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundam‮…