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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