We’ve all stared at the night sky, wondering what makes the stars shine so brightly. For some, it’s just a passing thought before sleep. For others, it’s a lifelong mystery: twinkling above but never answered. But one man, born in a small village in colonial India, dared to ask not only why the stars shine but also how we can read their light.

That man was Meghnad Saha. With a restless curiosity and a brilliant mind, he found a way to decode the stars themselves — revealing that the glowing giants above us follow rules written in the language of physics. His discovery, the Saha ionisation equation reshaped astrophysics and gave humanity a tool to peer deeper into the cosmos.

Born on October 6, 1893, in Seoratali, near Dhaka (then in British India), Saha’s journey from humble beginnings t

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