Thanx for the column. We feel very confident about ourself after reading your article. If your article is read by the people who need the motivation and encouragement your article works like medicine.
I'm not scientist, even though i'm feeling i should do something for our country. While reading the article i felt mixture of feels of happy and unhappy.
I am posting this to say, prepare more articles like this. These are needed for the youth.
I will forward this column to all my friends.
Thanx once again, to say about things which we don't upto now.
The data shown regarding the upliftment of indian economy, R&D and technological progress is impressive but we should not forget that it's just a drop in ocean, compared to Americans. the main bar for the lagging behind of india is lower government interest and fund allocation to the research projects and a person is not appreciated farely for his innovative work, the best example of that is the case with Abhas Mitra, who challenged the theory of exsistence of Black Hole given by renowned scientist Stephen Hawkins. Just because he contradicted Stephen's theory he had been demoted, and boycotted by his collegues and institute. so the government, and also the people should give a thought to this problem and appreciate the innovations and make it's path congenial not difficult.
Here its a struggle for survival. So its all about safe bet rather then innovation. Thats why most of the indian IT companies are service providers. This should b considred first before anything.
Well researched article. What is missing the rational behind non-cognitive thinking in Indian youngsters. Does having brain drain, mean we are short of brain in India ? Is the divide betweeen "brilliant" brains and "un-drainable" brain really that much ? The point is, we have failed at being innovative in introducing a intuitive education system. We have caused the GAP between brains to increase by following the same old education system. Unless it is reformed, nothing will get invented and we will continue to work as followers of inovators.
