How A Job In Jawaharlal Nehru's Team Eluded "Father Of Optics"
NDTV
Narinder Singh Kapany is credited as the "man who bent light" and invented fibre optics.
Jawaharlal Nehru had recommended the name of ''father of fibre optics'' Narinder Singh Kapany for the post of scientific advisor to the defence ministry but delay in the appointment process to "filter through the bureaucracy" ensured that the renowned US-based physicist's future was not in India.
Credited as the "man who bent light" and invented fibre optics, Mr Kapany had a wish of telling his story himself, and one of the last things he did shortly before he passed away in December 2020 was to finish and submit the final manuscript of his memoir, which has now been published by Roli Books.
In "The Man Who Bent Light: Narinder Singh Kapany, Father of Fibre Optics", readers will also get to know his commitment to championing Sikh heritage and culture besides his contribution to science.
Mr Kapany, who was awarded the Padma Vibhushan earlier this year (posthumously), amassed one of the world's largest collections of Sikh art and sponsored a number of exhibitions and permanent rooms in various museums around the world.