The government needs to allocate more funds for scientific research, the corporate houses need to do their bit, and India“s scientists must get out of their comfort zone of routine research and trivial technology to pursue genuine, far-reaching science, the eminent scientist, Bikash Sinha, tells Subhoranjan Dasgupta, professor of human science, in an interview Q: Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave us the inspiring slogan `Make in India`. But products and patents do not fall from heaven, like manna, on their own. They are the fruits of painstaking and path-breaking frontline research and advanced development.... Sinha: Precisely, and there“s the rub. Would you believe that India spends less than...
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