1. About the Mega-construction Story
Tiny chips and machines,
For folks of meager means,
Would have remained dreams
If a few dons, struggling without a lab
Had not, in India, built an awesome nanofab!
Audiences may now see, how a trying victory
Over nature and economic adversity,
Was won following a two year mega-construction,
Bringing to timely fruition
A peerless design for wide-ranging nanofabrication…
Enabling India to jump position
From the trailing pack, to that of a budding champion.
Youth of all colour and creed, but particularly Indian,
Aware that nanotechnologies are among the coolest nextgen,
Would love this tale of indigenous gumption!
The episodic feature
Has footage entirely of exclusive nature
And a narrative in verse as its stylistic signature.
Episodes –
1. Lonely Lab Lamps
2. Staking Future Ground
3. An Avalanche in Emptiness
4. Three Part Bubble
5.
2. Narrative arc :
In technological rags,
As the millennium turns, are their labs…
Exciting nanoscale machines, stuff of Indian dreams,
Can’t be made without Western means,
So progress at research Mecca, the IISc, lags
But Quixotic vigour to deliver
Only the best, takes four young dons across the rainbow’s arc,
Changes conditions stark.
In what will be scientific lore,
On a greenfield site in Bangalore,
They engineer a lab with ingenious features galore
And a 10,000 sq ft architectural ‘bubble’ at its core…
Which breathes the purest air,
Lets not nature interfere,
Deterring shakes of the slightest measure,
Lest they spoil the nanometric wafer.
After two years of exacting mega-construction,
The dons army turns a site barren
Into science’s brightest beacon.
Here, new reality will be shaped to Indian wishes…
The rags are gone, on are the riches!
Characters:
Four dons of the IISc (Indian Institute of Science) –
Navakant Bhat, Rudra Pratap, Anil Kumar and Raghavan Srini,
Now helming the new Centre for Nano Science & Engineering,
Provided exclusive access, unrestricted and continuing.
Indian scientific brass, politicians and global leading lights
Patted the dons on their exploits.
But those who complete this story-page,
Are visitors… especially of a dreaming age!
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