In spite of support from the Telangana government, apart from the huge effort and an excellent bouquet of speakers, ISF 2023 got little media coverage. But these may be early days. One hopes the festival, which focuses on both cutting-edge science and India’s historical contributions, grows and thrives.
The India Science Festival (ISF) is an annual celebration of science with lectures, panel discussions, book discussions, demonstrations, and workshops. The fourth edition was held recently at the sprawling campus of Hyderabad Public School.
The India Science Festival was first organised in Pune in January 2020 by Aspiring Minds, a Delhi-based firm founded by Varun Agarwal, an MIT, Boston graduate. The theme was AI and Neuroscience. I was then invited to deliver a talk on ‘Indian Mathematics — From Zero to Infinity’.