Conversation with Ayan Banerjee : In the Theater of Light & Life | IISER Kolkata

Ayan is an experimental optical physicist and a Professor at IISER Kolkata: https://www.iiserkol.ac.in/~ayan/grou....

He is also a playwriter, theatre actor and a mentor to many science and arts enthusiasts.
What drives him to do all these things?

We discuss this and many other things in this episode.

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