# Dwaipayan Banerjee

Norris Cotton Cancer Center Grand Rounds - Dwaipayan Banerjee PhD

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 boo…

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 …

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 Fundame…