By Nilanjan P. Choudhury, PGP 1998
Synopsis
The book is a trilogy of plays, based on the lives of three pioneering physicists from the Indian subcontinent. The first play, The Square Root of a Sonnet, explores the history and science of black holes through the life and works of the brilliant Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The second, The Trial of Abdus Salam, is a courtroom drama that examines the fascinating life of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in Physics (1979), and the third, Invisible Particles, reimagines the erased history of India’s first woman physicist, Dr. Bibha Chowdhuri.
About the Author
Nilanjan P. Choudhury is a science communicator, novelist, and theatre-maker from the IIMA PGP batch of 1996 –1998. His plays have had over 125 stage performances across India, the USA, the UK, and Europe.
