Like anyone in US is going to slowdown (including yourself) without China also agreeing slowing down
The AI genie is out of the bottle and is never going back in again
**Dr. Prasanta Kumar Mohanty โ The Engineer India Forgot**
Every building you enter in India. Every reinforced steel beam. Every ton of secondary steel produced. His work. And almost no one knows his name. Even Odias don't.
Dr. P.K. Mohanty is 93. Alzheimer's is taking him. Before his story is lost to time, it needs to be said.
**The choice:**
In the 1960s, he left Odisha for the US. Masters. PhD from Utah State. He could have stayed. Most engineers who left never came back. He chose differently. He chose to return to India. He chose to make Odisha prosper.
**What he built:**
He commercialised coal-based Direct Reduced Iron (DRI/sponge iron) in Indiaโ1984, OSIL, Palaspanga, Keonjhar. Proved you could industrialise using India's own iron ore and ordinary coal, not imported coking coal.
That technology became the foundation for India's entire secondary steel sector.
He also brought Torsteel technology to Indiaโthe reinforcing bars in every building constructed in the last four decades.
**The invisibility:**
He never name-dropped. Worked with every major industrialist of his era but built no monument to himself. Travelled from Palaspanga to Bhubaneswar in cargo trucks when required. A man entirely devoted to the work, indifferent to recognition.
**What we're about to lose:**
When his story ends, we lose more than a biography. We lose the documented record of how one engineer solved the specific technological problems that allowed India to industrialise using its own capability.
He came back when he didn't have to. He built for Odisha when easier paths existed. He chose contribution over recognition.
The nation still doesn't know what he gave it.
@volklub@FactswithDinesh Paaji, as long as car makers post record sales month on month, neither OEMs nor Govt will care. I have personally postponed buying a new car due to ethanol/isobutanol fiasco, although I really need it.
@volklub@HyundaiIndia Bro, nobody at the showrooms seems to know the safety rating, they just say it's 5 star but when asked for any documentation they talk about the platform, etc.
@KFC_India, Extremely poor delivery system and fraud riders you are employing. Ordered at 7.45 pm, food got ready by 8.05 pm, rider calls me and asks for OTP, which I said I will only provide after delivery. He has ghosted now. And i stay just 10 mins away from the store.
@volklub Paaji, I am a HPCL Dealer and can give you more info in dm, but this issue needs to be taken up on immediate basis, especially by the opposition parties.