Tarang Vaish (Class of 2005, CTO and co-founder, Granica) and Alexander Seelam (Class of 2025, 2une at Physics Wallah) on what they built at IIT Guwahati, how they recovered after setbacks, and what they’d tell students starting out. When Alexander Seelam went looking for the first customers of his startup, twenty prospects turned him away. He didn’t read the refusals as a verdict on himself or his product. “My timing was bad,” he told himself. He kept going, and the twenty-f

More than 1.8 million people in India suffer from a stroke every year. Teams at IIT Guwahati are part of an international open-source community creating devices that can bring life-saving emergency MRI diagnostics closer to patients - increasing access, affordability, and portability. What is an MRI? Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of medicine's most powerful diagnostic tools. It uses the magnetic properties of hydrogen atoms in the body to emit a signal that a com

AstroSat was expected to last five years. It is still going 11 years later. On the sidelines of ASI 2026 in IIT Guwahati, Prof Annapurni Subramaniam of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics talks about what it actually takes to engineer something that works — in orbit, where no one can fix it. Prof. Annapurni Subramaniam is Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru, and the scientist who led the ultraviolet instrumentation on AstroSat — India's first multi-