Hari Pulakkat

Senior Editor, ET

I have been a science and technology writer for over two decades. I had spent 18 years in the Businessworld magazine, sandwiched between two stints in The Economic Times. During these two decades, I ...

I have been a science and technology writer for over two decades. I had spent 18 years in the Businessworld magazine, sandwiched between two stints in The Economic Times. During these two decades, I have had the opportunity to write on several technology-based industries as well as R&D in national laboratories. I was also fortunate to have been able to spend four years in the Silicon Valley as the US correspondent of Businessworld. I have been always been interested in how technology gets developed and used, especially within the constraints of a developing country like India. With the exception of movies, I find everything in this world interesting. Apart from science, I love literature and music. And a good game of test cricket.

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Stories by the author

• Early work on for safe replacement of plastics

  
  27 Sep 2019 11:27 PM IST
• Why moon matters for future interplanetary missions

  
  07 Sep 2019 11:00 PM IST
• Final destination

  
  06 Sep 2019 04:39 PM IST
• Chandrayaan-2 Landing: How Isro's Vikram, Pragyan plan to make history tonight

  
  06 Sep 2019 07:45 AM IST

• R&D

  A base camp for biotech entrepreneurs: why startups are flocking to this incubator in Bengaluru

  
  8 mins read22 Aug 2019
• As Earth warms up, South India to bear the maximum brunt

  
  17 Aug 2019 11:00 PM IST
• India needs both informal and formal innovation to move higher in Innovation Index

  
  26 Jul 2019 10:50 PM IST
• Pressure drop in rocket led Isro to abort moon mission

  
  16 Jul 2019 07:39 AM IST
• The celesetial bond

  
  15 Jul 2019 12:15 PM IST
• Chandrayaan-2: India Inc’s lunar odyssey gets into mission mode

  
  15 Jul 2019 10:00 AM IST

• Healthcare

  Doctor, what app should I take?

  
  7 mins read5 Jul 2019
• How Chandrayaan 2 will add more teeth to ISRO's capabilities

  
  15 Jun 2019 12:05 AM IST
• Companies have begun to improve the range & accuracy of weather forecasting

  
  18 May 2019 10:06 AM IST

• Telecom

  5 IITs, 200 researchers, and 40 faculty: India’s INR240 crore project for a seat at the 5G table

  
  10 mins read30 Apr 2019
• How Azim Premji is rewriting the art of giving

  
  26 Mar 2019 07:17 AM IST
• Decoding flame behaviour and how it helps jet engine design

  
  02 Mar 2019 11:15 PM IST

• Innovation

  How Bugworks did a cancer pivot and scaled a digital drug-discovery model to fight deadly diseases

  
  7 mins read27 Feb 2019
• Model Scientist: Statistical physicist who helps biologists understand life at a deep level

  
  16 Feb 2019 11:00 PM IST
• Check your Glucose sans any bloodshed

  
  08 Feb 2019 11:23 AM IST
• Forty years and counting for this scientist's 'eureka' moment; One who shoots photons everyday

  
  02 Feb 2019 11:00 PM IST
• TCS-IISc team chases million-$ drone prize

  
  25 Jan 2019 09:10 AM IST
• Mumbai-based scientist Ravindra Kumar is creating stars' temperatures on his tabletop

  
  19 Jan 2019 11:00 PM IST
• Does fasting really work, or is it just low calories that are beneficial?

  
  12 Jan 2019 11:30 PM IST
• India's science and tech centres double up as startup ideation hubs

  
  03 Jan 2019 08:54 AM IST
• Next decade to be critical for climate change: What the world expects from India?

  
  15 Dec 2018 11:00 PM IST
• Bugworks Research set for pre-clinical drug trials

  
  07 Dec 2018 11:29 PM IST
• A look at gene editing and why it is controversial

  
  01 Dec 2018 11:00 PM IST
• Vitamin D pills, fish oil no guard against cancer or heart diseases

  
  17 Nov 2018 11:03 PM IST
• How India is contributing in development of new-age computers

  
  13 Nov 2018 07:31 AM IST
• Scientists waiting for two more clearances for neutrino project

  
  09 Nov 2018 08:07 AM IST
• How Reva founder Chetan Maini is trying to redefine the future of urban transport

  
  27 Oct 2018 11:00 PM IST

• Electric vehicles

  How a childhood hobby gave Reva founder Chetan Maini a vision for sustainable urban transport

  
  9 mins read26 Oct 2018

• Space

  Isro alone can’t get the Gaganaut in space. It will need a little help from Anant, Agnikul, Bellatrix, and Inox.

  
  8 mins read17 Oct 2018
• Once deemed impossible, IITs and IISc are ushering in changes

  
  18 Aug 2018 11:00 PM IST
• Global Innovation Index ranks India the 57th most innovative nation

  
  10 Jul 2018 08:25 PM IST
• India could develop a gallium nitride fab, if the government is willing to invest

  
  05 Jul 2018 08:04 AM IST
• A water cycle bent out of shape: India’s big crisis

  
  07 Jun 2018 09:20 AM IST
• How India is trying to solve its plastics waste problem

  
  02 Jun 2018 11:00 PM IST
• India all set for the biotech bounce among its startups

  
  29 May 2018 08:02 AM IST
• Is India ready to handle an epidemic? The frightful truth behind Nipah outbreak

  
  26 May 2018 10:59 PM IST
• Fieldwork like no other: Making of indigenous soil sensors

  
  14 May 2018 11:53 PM IST
• Conzumex: An IITian's dream to improve manufacturing ecosystem in India

  
  14 May 2018 11:47 PM IST
• IIT graduates close to creating unicorns on their own campuses

  
  08 May 2018 08:33 AM IST
• IMD forecasts normal monsoon this year but history might repeat itself

  
  24 Apr 2018 08:41 AM IST