“Engineer, Economist, Nationalist: The Many Lives Of Bharat Ratna M. Visvesvaraya”, Swarajya, March 02, 2026
“Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M. Visvesvaraya (1861–1962). Aparajith Ramnath. Penguin Random House India. Pages: 708. Price: Rs 1299.
India’s story, from ancient to modern times, is filled with personalities whose ideas, methods, and works contributed to the country’s intellectual, political, and social history and led them to occupy an enduring place in Indian public memory. But there are also icons whose life and career remain underexamined, less known, and much less celebrated.
This story is about the man who shaped India’s engineering imagination, both literally and figuratively, not only by building engineering marvels across undivided India but also by donning the hat of an economist, an educationist, and a constitutionalist to make significant contributions to India’s story of development and planning. This is the story of an archetypal engineer-statesman, Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, whose life and career needed a sustained inquiry in the form of a biography — and so we have Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M. Visvesvaraya (1861–1962) by Aparajith Ramnath……”
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