A show about the people building India's future in labs nobody films. I go in, I try the thing their research makes possible, on camera, and a lot of India watches.
Why
Most Indians are pessimistic about research in this country. Not because nothing is happening, but because nobody shows it to them. Someone in a small lab in Koramangala got DNA storage down to $1 per MB, and almost nobody outside her field knew. Loonshots shows it.
Episodes
If my email brought you here
Your lab, your office, your field site. You show me what you're working on, like you'd show a friend.
Not a lecture. I do the thing your research makes possible, with my own hands, and you're the one who knows how.
You see the script before we shoot and the cut before it goes live. Nothing goes out wrong about your work.
The name
“A loonshot is something nobody has dared to do before. A goal so ambitious that you don’t even know if it’s possible. … I prefer the term loonshot because it highlights the necessary stupidity a bit better.”
Naman Pushp, Airbound, on his Substack (2022)
Host
24, Bengaluru. I spend most weeks in someone else's lab, office or field, asking questions that sound stupid and usually aren't. Loonshots runs on my Instagram, where 130K people follow along.
