National Science Day 2021
How wonderful it is to have a national holiday dedicated to science. I want to make a preemptive statement here that I have been on a visit to RRCAT twice before: once in 2016 and once in 2017. (That would put me in tenth and eleventh class respectively.) As a result, I already had an idea of what to expect from the webinar. That being said, I feel that Science Day this year was at an advantage due to being virtual. It goes against intuition, I know. But I do have a justification for saying that. A lot of the work that happens at RRCAT – which is also what puts it at the frontiers of research – is high-energy research, or even research that requires extreme environments. Even in an in-person visit, it would not have been possible to look at those experiments as closely as we would have liked. Thus, that is a parameter that remained largely unchanged over a virtual meet. By virtue of having visited RRCAT before, I feel justified saying that in terms of the material that was...