Students turn IIT Hyderabad professor’s ‘impossible’ idea into reality

IIT Hyderabad professor Kirti Chandra Sahu received the National Teachers Award 2026 for his unique teaching approach. He views teaching as co-learning, encouraging students to question and debate his ideas. His students helped build the Raindrops Research Facility after a company deemed it impossible. This decade-long project studies raindrop size distribution for improved weather radar. Sahu bel