Midnight's machines : a political history of technology in India
- Gurgaon Penguin Books 2019
- 236p.
https://penguin.co.in/book/midnights-machines/
"Named among “The Best Books of 2020” by Bloomberg Shortlisted for New India Foundation’s Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2020 Every Prime Minister of Independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country’s crown jewels – its nuclear and space programmes – to solar stoves and mechanized bullock carts."