‘The Trials and Triumphs of G N Ramachandran’
G N Ramachandran is today most known for his Ramachandran Plot, which is one of the few scientific contributions from India which have made it into textbooks. But how many are aware of the story behind it? In this documentary, many prominent scientists including Directors of Institutes, a former Secretary of Indian Science and Technology, and a Nobel Laureate, come together to bring you the thrilling tale of a scientific genius who battled poor infrastructure and controversies to make foundational contributions in Structural Biology and established his department as a centre of world-class research.
This film has won the ‘Best of Festival’ award at the International Science Film Festival of India 2020.
Language: English
Duration: 43:48
Director: Rahul Iyer
Producer: Vivek Kannadi (Science Media Centre)
Executive Producer: Prof. Harinath Chakrapani
Cinematography: Imayavan Pattabiraman
Editing: Vivek Kannadi and Rahul Iyer
Artwork: Ipsa Jain and Sneha Tripathi
VFX: Rafeeque Mavoor
Voice Over: Pushkar Sohoni
Featuring
Harishankar Ramachandran
V Bharathi Harishankar
Manju Bansal
N Srinivasan
P Balaram
T Ramasami
V Sasisekharan
S Swaminathan
MRN Murthy
Krishna N Ganesh
Venki Ramakrishnan
N Yathindra
Vasantha Pattabhi
Andrej Sali
Tom Blundell
George Rose
BJ Rao
Date: 28th Feb 2021
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Event Details:
5.00 pm - 5.05 pm: Curtain raiser by Dr. Arnab Mukherjee, Faculty Coordinator, SMC IISER Pune
5.05 pm - 5.45 pm: Screening of the movie 'The Trials and Triumphs of G N Ramachandran'
5.45 pm - 6.20 pm:
A panel discussion on ‘The Ramachandran Impact on Indian Science’
Introduction by: Prof Harinath Chakrapani, IISER Pune
Moderated by: Dr M S Madhusudhan, IISER Pune
Panelists:
Prof Manju Bansal, IISc Bengaluru
Prof P Balaram, NCBS Bengaluru
Prof N Yathindra, IBAB Bengaluru
Prof Vasantha Pattabhi, Retd (Madras University)
Prof Jayant Udgaonkar, Director, IISER Pune
Dr. Gayathri Pananghat, IISER Pune
6.20 pm - 6.30 pm: Comments on the film
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