Pranav’s Substack

Kuari Pass: an expedition journal

An account of a Himalayan expedition in winter, in the style of explorers of the 1800s

Jan 19 • 

Pranav Krishnan

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October 2024

IIT Kharagpur innovates to breathe life into the fight against COVID-19

A team of students and Professor Aditya Bandopadhyay from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with…

Oct 9, 2024 • 

Pranav Krishnan

Breaking a Virus II — COVIRAP and where it goes from here

Featuring an exclusive interview with the 3 student researchers who helped develop it as well the results of the ICMR approved field testing

Oct 9, 2024 • 

Pranav Krishnan

Breaking a Virus I — the story of IIT Kharagpur’s ground-breaking COVID test

The team has broken interdisciplinary barriers to create a disruptive and low-cost rapid diagnostic test

Oct 9, 2024 • 

Pranav Krishnan

July 2024

August 2022

Experience Unapologetically

What I’ve learnt from the non-work side of college can be distilled into one takeaway: choose experiences that you are unapologetic about.

Aug 2, 2022 • 

Pranav Krishnan

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January 2022

Lament for KGP, 4 am

For it is the hour the heart yearns that which is lost

Jan 9, 2022 • 

Pranav Krishnan

March 2021

Soliloquy by Sleeper Train

Kerala has a unique beauty at night. The thick ridges of treecover reflecting the darkness of the sky, interspersed with mist-laden paddy.

Mar 4, 2021 • 

Pranav Krishnan

October 2020

Phoning Home

Phoning home with the last few light rays of the day 💰

Oct 2, 2020 • 

Pranav Krishnan

August 2020

Heading down South : ISRO images the Lunar South Pole

Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter beams back the most detailed pictures ever of the South Pole of the moon

Aug 12, 2020 • 

Pranav Krishnan

Aluminium Matrix Hybrid Composites — big words, big on potential

IIT KGP researchers develop a new hybrid composite that could pave the way for structural applications in aerospace and antennas

Aug 12, 2020 • 

Pranav Krishnan

A drug delivery gel that could be a vaccine for California’s wildfires

Stanford Professor creates a bio-inspired solution for wildfires that won’t get washed away

Aug 12, 2020 • 

Pranav Krishnan