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Citizens and politicians need to become more responsible. We have seen various religious events, marriage celebrations, birthday celebrations in the last 5 weeks. we see people coming out and not obeying police. All this will ensure a longer lock down and costing us in terms of money, economy and deaths. Indian governments in the first 40-45 years absolutely failed to instill discipline in citizens. This is making the task of managing COVID 19 even more difficult. After L B Shastryji, we have leader who is asking citizens to make sacrifices. Otherwise, the attempt always was to make citizens believe that they will get things without working hard and efforts. Affluent citizens need to follow healthy life style which hopefully percolate down. Our school children need to be educated about it. Just improving per capita income and GDP will not help. Otherwise, no amount of funds and budget allocation will be adequate.
Life sciences certainly is a need of the times ; the Covid situation has changed many equations and priorities. Research ideas and thoughts , assessed and prioritised ,supported ,monitored and outcome / contribution elucidated is more important than duplication, unfit for application / translation type of work. Capital located and centric organisations in some areas require almost an overhaul and revamp. These few aspects plus result oriented approach and responsive regulatory bodies can bring in desired change. ME Yeolekar,Mumbai. ( Dir-Prof)
India spends a lot of money on a lot of things. But it seldom invests wisely and is corroded since 1947 by its pervasive structure system and process of creating incompetent resources and then employing them to ply corruption and dispense largess or harassment on the basis of caste tribe, religion, language, geography, gender, geography and proximity to power. As exemplified by Modi’s Tax and Waste policies since 2014.
The British had founded the Pasteur Institute at Coonoor on April 6th 1907 and which Institution was dedicated to formulating and creating vaccines and named after Louis Pasteur, the French genius who invented the process of vaccination.
Britain has two teams working on it since eight weeks and is putting in place manufacturing facilities to manufacture the requisite number by August. The Oxford team was first off the bat and Britain has commenced human testing on 23rd April Imperial College London should be ready with Vaccine “B” soon. But India gave up evolution along with governance in 1947.
The Pasteur Institute, like all of Indian Institutions such as the Courts, RBI, Armed Forces, Universities etc became moribund political statements and slogans dedicated to providing sinecures for incompetent, corrupt Kleptocrats selected and / or promoted by nepotism, favoritism, or birth into chosen castes, tribes, religions, genders, language, geographies, and proximity to power owing to the lack of effective, competent leaders with integrity.
Hence, India maintains the facade of a Developed Nation State as it was in 1947, albeit with the names of scoundrels and scallywags replacing those of the makers of Modern India, while completely dependent on alien patrons and charity for survival having abolished all progress and lowered all standards to those of the “backwards” i.e. to less than Modal Mediocrity.”
You are jumping from British Raj to Modi era. Obviously, the years lost to Socialism, huge corruption in Congress Raj even in the years 1947 to 2000 are ignored to prove your point. Are you referring to the makers of modern India whose policies forced India to insolvency in 1990 and had to transfer Gold out of country to survive? Mind you , I lived in those years. Or Italian Zarini who does not have formal education nor experience in any field and her illustrious son who cannot count numbers nor pronounce Indian Names? Do you expect BJP/Modi to do what Congress and its splinter groups could not do in 65 years?
For more than four decades, both the Central and State governments have squandered valuable resources on populist schemes and reservation. The newspapers were in the forefront of lauding such stupid measures. So, money which could have been deployed in education and research went to waste bodies of the societies. Now, the birds have come home to roost. In India, pure science has always been a neglected area.
Spending on life science research will not fetch votes for the government. Only freebies subsidies reservation loan waivers will keep the people happy and allow the government to remain in power. This is how politicians think.
Citizens and politicians need to become more responsible. We have seen various religious events, marriage celebrations, birthday celebrations in the last 5 weeks. we see people coming out and not obeying police. All this will ensure a longer lock down and costing us in terms of money, economy and deaths. Indian governments in the first 40-45 years absolutely failed to instill discipline in citizens. This is making the task of managing COVID 19 even more difficult. After L B Shastryji, we have leader who is asking citizens to make sacrifices. Otherwise, the attempt always was to make citizens believe that they will get things without working hard and efforts. Affluent citizens need to follow healthy life style which hopefully percolate down. Our school children need to be educated about it. Just improving per capita income and GDP will not help. Otherwise, no amount of funds and budget allocation will be adequate.
Life sciences certainly is a need of the times ; the Covid situation has changed many equations and priorities. Research ideas and thoughts , assessed and prioritised ,supported ,monitored and outcome / contribution elucidated is more important than duplication, unfit for application / translation type of work. Capital located and centric organisations in some areas require almost an overhaul and revamp. These few aspects plus result oriented approach and responsive regulatory bodies can bring in desired change. ME Yeolekar,Mumbai. ( Dir-Prof)
India spends a lot of money on a lot of things. But it seldom invests wisely and is corroded since 1947 by its pervasive structure system and process of creating incompetent resources and then employing them to ply corruption and dispense largess or harassment on the basis of caste tribe, religion, language, geography, gender, geography and proximity to power. As exemplified by Modi’s Tax and Waste policies since 2014.
The British had founded the Pasteur Institute at Coonoor on April 6th 1907 and which Institution was dedicated to formulating and creating vaccines and named after Louis Pasteur, the French genius who invented the process of vaccination.
Britain has two teams working on it since eight weeks and is putting in place manufacturing facilities to manufacture the requisite number by August. The Oxford team was first off the bat and Britain has commenced human testing on 23rd April Imperial College London should be ready with Vaccine “B” soon. But India gave up evolution along with governance in 1947.
The Pasteur Institute, like all of Indian Institutions such as the Courts, RBI, Armed Forces, Universities etc became moribund political statements and slogans dedicated to providing sinecures for incompetent, corrupt Kleptocrats selected and / or promoted by nepotism, favoritism, or birth into chosen castes, tribes, religions, genders, language, geographies, and proximity to power owing to the lack of effective, competent leaders with integrity.
Hence, India maintains the facade of a Developed Nation State as it was in 1947, albeit with the names of scoundrels and scallywags replacing those of the makers of Modern India, while completely dependent on alien patrons and charity for survival having abolished all progress and lowered all standards to those of the “backwards” i.e. to less than Modal Mediocrity.”
You are jumping from British Raj to Modi era. Obviously, the years lost to Socialism, huge corruption in Congress Raj even in the years 1947 to 2000 are ignored to prove your point. Are you referring to the makers of modern India whose policies forced India to insolvency in 1990 and had to transfer Gold out of country to survive? Mind you , I lived in those years. Or Italian Zarini who does not have formal education nor experience in any field and her illustrious son who cannot count numbers nor pronounce Indian Names? Do you expect BJP/Modi to do what Congress and its splinter groups could not do in 65 years?
For more than four decades, both the Central and State governments have squandered valuable resources on populist schemes and reservation. The newspapers were in the forefront of lauding such stupid measures. So, money which could have been deployed in education and research went to waste bodies of the societies. Now, the birds have come home to roost. In India, pure science has always been a neglected area.
Spending on life science research will not fetch votes for the government. Only freebies subsidies reservation loan waivers will keep the people happy and allow the government to remain in power. This is how politicians think.