This play imagines India’s first woman particle physicist Bibha Chowdhuri’s fight against prejudices
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Bibha: Ever since I can remember, I wanted to become a scientist. When I was nine, my father told me the story of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose – the first modern scientist to emerge from India after centuries of darkness. In the year 1900, Jagadish babu had shown to the world the tangible effects of the invisible electromagnetic waves that had been predicted by Maxwell nearly thirty years ago. Standing proud and alone in the hallowed lecture hall of the Royal Institution in London, Jagadish babu gave a dazzling demonstration of the power of science to the very people who had used it to enslave us for over a century. Since then, I dreamt of becoming like Jagadish Bose, who had given flesh and blood to Maxwell’s phantom waves; like Satyendra Nath Bose who, along with Einstein, had revealed the mathematics of photons. Like Meghnad Saha whose equations had shed light upon the workings of the sun itself. These were my heroes.
(Debendra Mohan Bose enters.)
Bose: In a land starved of heroes, my jyathamoshai is a true hero. My jyathamoshai – meaning my uncle, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose. My uncle is a truly great man. Perhaps a little too great, though…if...