What India needs to transform to outthink the west
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What India needs to transform to outthink the west

New Indian Express  

Nostalgia is a concept often misused to create distance. Patrick Geddes, the Scottish biologist and first biographer of Jagadish Chandra Bose, captured one such slice when he said what Indian science needs was good myth. Shockley said Bose was a genius and then added, “The rest is toilet paper.” The same sense of play and confidence could be seen in C V Raman’s career. Few people realise that the Indian Nobel winner declared he was getting the prize six months ahead of the declaration and arranged for his travel to Stockholm. He merely said, “These are tools for the burial of scientific instruments.” He had a different sense of social relevance.

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