News · Media Intelligence · Vol. XV
An editorial archive of coverage across fifteen years and eighteen publications — Indian, international, popular press and scientific institutions. Filed chronologically. Read selectively.
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Years of coverage
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Archived dispatches
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★ Lead Story · June 11, 2022
An exclusive cover story chronicling the journey of a serial innovator from Bhubaneswar — from a breath-controlled wheelchair built at 14 to founding multiple deep-tech ventures.
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Conference
National coverage of GraphIN 2026 in Kochi — the conference convening industry, academia and government to chart India's graphene future.
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07 · The Archive
The full register — features and interviews, deep-tech reporting, recognitions of record, venture press, and the stage record. From teenage assistive tech in The Telegraph and NIF, to global recognition in MIT TR and Wikipedia, to deep-tech reporting on Capattery, GraphIN and the battery breakthrough.
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06 Entries
Long-form profiles and cover stories across the Indian and international press.
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June 11, 2022
An exclusive cover story chronicling the journey of a serial innovator from Bhubaneswar — from a breath-controlled wheelchair built at 14 to founding multiple deep-tech ventures.
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2014
A long-form profile by India's product think-tank on the young innovator whose gadgets — once compared to Doraemon's — are now solving real-world problems.
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2014
An 'Unknown Wizards' feature spotlighting Sushant's portfolio of inventions and the social impact of his assistive and clean-tech innovations.
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2013
India Today profiles the youngest serial entrepreneur to be honoured by three Presidents of India, with prototypes spanning assistive tech, robotics and energy.
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2013
The Sunday Chronicle profiles the breath-operated wheelchair innovator and co-founder of two companies — honoured thrice by the President of India before turning 21.
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November 7, 2011
The New Indian Express profiles a young Sushant Pattnaik on his determination to channel honours into a foundation that supports under-resourced innovators across India.
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05 Entries
Reporting on the inventions, the materials science and the deep-tech ventures.
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March 9, 2026
National coverage of GraphIN 2026 in Kochi — the conference convening industry, academia and government to chart India's graphene future.
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March 21, 2022
Business Standard reports on Sushant's breakthrough in rapid battery charging — a technology poised to charge a smartphone in seconds and reshape the EV and consumer electronics landscape.
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March 21, 2022
ThePrint syndicates the ANI dispatch on Sushant's nano-material battery breakthrough — promising smartphone charges in seconds and EV refuels in minutes.
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September 16, 2013
Governance Now profiles the breath-sensor apparatus at the NIF-organised Delhi exhibition — an innovation enabling paralysed and physically challenged people to perform basic chores independently.
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2010
At seventeen, Sushant's breath-sensor apparatus drew national attention as a life-changing assistive technology for the physically challenged.
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04 Entries
Citations, encyclopedic entries and the public record of national honours.
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2024
An encyclopedic entry on the Odia Wikipedia chronicling Sushant Pattnaik's life, innovations and recognitions.
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April 13, 2015
TOI Bhopal chronicles a third-year engineering student already holding 21 awards, multiple patents and inventions ranging from a roti-status SMS device to assistive breath-controlled systems.
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2012
The Golden Book of World Records officially recognises Susant Pattnaik for the world record of 'the Youngest Inventor and Social Entrepreneur' — citing his MIT TR-35 selection at 17 and a string of national and international honours.
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2010
NIF-India recognises the IGNITE awardee whose work has led to ten working prototypes, four companies, an MIT Technology Review feature and a TED India talk.
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01 Entry
Coverage of the companies — Capattery, Monoatom Labs and the wider portfolio.
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The stage record — TED, INK Talks, FAB10 and the global conference circuit.
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January 1, 2014
INK Talks features Sushant as a young innovator helping differently-abled individuals through breakthroughs like the Breathing Sensor Apparatus.
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May 15, 2014
TOI Bhopal profiles Sushant — then a second-year engineering student with a string of patents — selected to be honoured at the FAB10 international conference in Barcelona.
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09 · Mastheads
The mastheads carrying the work — Indian and international, popular press and scientific institutions.
10 · Posture
The archive is selective. Press is useful when it accelerates the work and quiet when it does not. New coverage is added here as it stabilises.
