01 / About
Who is behind this
A physics degree, a peer-reviewed paper, and a decision to explain all of it in the language the audience actually thinks in.
I am Kshitij Pandey. I make science videos for an audience that was taught to pass exams in physics without ever being shown why any of it is strange.
I hold an MSc in Physics with a focus on astrophysics and cosmology, and co-authored a peer-reviewed paper on high-energy collisions near naked singularities. That is the background. The work itself is Astro Kshitij: short films, long explainers and a great deal of myth-breaking, mostly in Hindi, because the people who most need this are not reading it in English.
I have spoken at TEDx and received a Science Communicator Award. Neither of those is the point. The point is that a reel correcting what a textbook says about electricity reached 1.7 million people, which is more than any classroom I will ever stand in.
The through line is that most science education answers questions nobody asked, and skips the ones that would have made someone curious. I try to do the opposite, which usually means starting with the thing that sounds wrong.