Science & Discovery

India worked out the concept of zero, calculated the length of a year to within minutes, and performed cataract surgery when most of the world was still guessing at medicine. This section is about that long record — ancient and modern. You'll find Aryabhata and the decimal system, Sushruta's surgical tools, the Wootz steel that became Damascus blades, and later Ramanujan's notebooks, C.V. Raman's Nobel, and the shoestring genius that put a spacecraft around Mars. Some articles explain a discovery; others follow the person who made it. India's contribution to science goes back further than most people realise, and this is where we dig into it.