Narinder Singh Kapany, Father of Fibre Optics

Narinder Singh Kapany, Father of Fibre Optics

London, 1954 — A narrow beam of light bounced through a twisted glass strand and emerged, still intact, at the other end. Watching it closely was a young Sikh scientist from Punjab, Narinder Singh Kapany, unaware that this single experiment would eventually power the global internet, high-speed medical imaging, and modern communication. Today, we call it fibre optics — the backbone of our digital world. But few know that the man who first demons…