The search for meaningful purpose: Reminiscences of an Indian engineer

Abstract

As a school student in Cuttack in the State of Odisha, I read about the great visionary Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata and his magnificent contributions to science, industry and society. Tata Steel then, as now, was a household name in Odisha and one of my elder brothers, a Chemical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur, who had taken summer training there, had mentioned that Tata Steel had a number of brilliant metallurgists doing exciting work, mastering the flow of liquid iron that had the colour of ripe orange and imparting shape, strength and toughness tored hot solid steel.