Modi may give more funding. But great work can come only from scientists and their attitude. More funds should not result in more publications. Rather, more innovations are essential. I wonder with so much of funding and many PhDs, why there is no new discovery from India so far? I think, apart from stopping politics, favoritism, scientists' attitude should change from more publications to more new ideas and discoveries, even with less publications.
I respect him for the science he did and the institutions he has built. I am not sure if he is heading any institutes. If so, he shd perhaps move on and give space for youngsters to take over the leadership roles. If he has already done that, its great.
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by Vivek Ganguly on Nov 07, 2014 01:09 PM
these are some paper copier and multipliers making papers and thinking that they do science. Dr. Chintamoni rao why did not you invent something with graphene rather copying gra[hene research after somebody invent it and then you open a lab by wasting govt fund. this is what they do for their all paper, read it in nature journal in detail, The paper, by Rao and materials scientist Saluru Baba Krupanidhi at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, along with two of their students — Basant Chitara and L. S. Panchakarla — explored the use of reduced graphene oxide and graphene nanoribbons as infrared photo detectors and was published online by Advanced Materials in July last year1.
But three sentences in the introduction and a description of an equation had been copied verbatim from a paper published in Applied Physics Letters in April 2010 (ref. 2), with the source referenced. Chitara says he was responsible for the error, and has “sincerely apologized”. He says he had intended to modify the sentences later but forgot.
Rao says that he did go through the paper before it was submitted, but missed the problem. “Usually I write the entire paper but in this case, I had gone through mainly the results and the discussion.”
