How An Odisha Scientist Who Studied Under Lamplight Now Leads In Quantum Science and Technology

Bhubaneswar: In the quiet lanes of a remote village in Odisha’s Ganjam district, where evenings arrive early because homes go dark without electricity, a young boy once sat chasing light—both literally and in spirit. That boy was Arun K. Pati. While other children returned home at dusk, he carried his books to the panchayat office veranda, where a single electric bulb burned like a small sun in an otherwise shadowed village. Under its pale glow, sitting on the cold floor, he dreamed of a universe far brighter than his surroundings.

Today, the world knows him as one of the top 1% of scientists globally, a leading figure in quantum physics, the Father of Indian Quantum Computing, and the man who recently discovered the ‘ Quantum Acceleration Limit ’—a rule hidden in nature’s deepest laye