Webinar: Engineering a Dream
The image of the Indian engineer with a backpack has replaced older stereotypes of cows and mystics for many foreigners.
India produces a significant portion of the world's engineers annually, and a large number of Indian graduates pursue careers in engineering abroad. For many inter-cultural practitioners, engineers form the core group when working with Indians.
How did engineering become such a core skill and aspiration for a large number of Indians? How has the profile of the Indian engineer evolved? What role did outstanding engineers from the past -- like
Sir M. Visvesvaraya, whose birthday is celebrated as Engineers Day in India -- play in moulding the profession, its social standing, and indeed the nation itself?
Join us for this fireside chat where Mala Malkani of Sietar India explores these questions and more
with historian Aparajith Ramnath through a discussion of his books The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900-47 and the more recent Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962).