ABSTRACT
A history of the STMs in Pune has been told, jugaad has been introduced and the enculturing of research practice that is visible inside the laboratory has helped conceptualise technological jugaad as a culture of innovation embedded in a social, cultural and historical reality. Having explored the lab, then having travelled into and through the world outside, I will re-enter Dharmadhikari’s lab one last time for a final look. This one will be inside out and, not surprisingly, leads to a whole new set of questions and challenges on the one hand and raises afresh others that have remained barely hidden below the surface on the other. They are linked to the future of the objects that have been at the very core of this entire story – the instruments that Dharmadhikari and his students made and worked with for more than two decades.
