Pitch Us If you’re keen to write for Alter Magazine but don’t have a clear idea, below are some ideas at the intersection of Science, Technology, and Progress that we’re hoping someone will write for us. Please do reach out to [email protected]
How Seth Walchand Hirachand built India’s industrial backbone?
How an 'Indian Scientific Service' could fix India's technocratic deficit
How Titan built a global watch empire
IMAI vs the RBI — tracing a landmark Supreme Court battle
India’s protein revolution
How did we build a nuclear submarine
Inside the world's most difficult science exam
Imagining a Monsoon City for India
Why is the Bangalore Airport so Damn Good
An Insiders History of UPI
How did Razorpay build India's payments infrastructure
An intellectual history of an Indian science/engineering institution
Inside Chandrababu Naidu's plans to create a Quantum Computing Valley
What does MK Stalin's ambitious Indus Valley challenge want to achieve?
What can India's ANRF learn from ARIA/DARPA
How will India manage the impending robotics revolution?
How can we redesign Indian railway stations or Where are India’s modern railway stations?
How does India design products for 1.5b people?
How did we revive the art of Dastangoi?
India’s aspirations to build an F1 team: the rise and fall of Force India.
If you have other ideas you'd like to explore on the themes of progress, we'd like to commission stories that fit Joel Mokyr's framework of "useful knowledge"— stories that advance Propositional knowledge (why things work, provide scientific understanding); Prescriptive knowledge (how to do things, recipes, engineering practices). Here are some publications that we like (we either enjoy the style of writing or the themes explored): Works in Progress , Asimov Press , Asterisk , Noema Magazine , Roads & Kingdoms , Phenomenal World , Inflection Points , Colossus Magazine , erstwhile Civil Lines , Fifty Two , London Review of Books .
