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I have a light disagreement Sir , as far as I know about IIPH Gandhinagar which too is an Indian University, It had series of community engagement efforts via social media, developed videos, chat shows, IEC material in vernacular language, English and Hindi …………………..
Indian Scientists are no different from ordinary Indians who have slave minds that doesn’t allow them to think independently and have confidence in their approaches. I have recently seen few allopathy doctors ridiculing a sole Ayurveda doctor in a TV debate on Corona virus. They reject any thing Indian even without proving the ayurveda prescriptions wrong. However, they accept any thing said by westerners again without proving it themselves. Indian Scientists are mere users of Science invented by west.
If, God forbid – you have fever, cough, sore throat and breathing trouble in the next few days – do take your favourite ayurvedic prescriptions instead of going to a hospital, and report the results here. Bhakts are the antithesis of science and reason.
With due respects to the former vice chancellor. The funds available for any one of the foreign university may be more than 25 such Indian universities. As a former vice-chancellor, the author would know how much funds were available for any research in biology. Most universities make the students doing PhD’s and MSc to buy their own kits used for the their and junior’s degrees. Because resources are scarce, almost all the guides design there own problems and instead of working for a single problem and pooling limited resources. Many a time they work at cross purposes. With such a large population , which some of elites call as human capital, all the governments have done is only paid lip service to any research. Unless the private companies and government take interest in the research and make a effort to pool intellectual and financial resources on few real and meaningful problems, we are never going to be on cutting edge of any scientific developments in Biological research. We were able to ride the information technology and software wave, because all we needed was simple PC, which quite a few of us afforded. We had the intellectual capability to utilize the scarec resources and make a reputation in the field of software. But research in medicine /biology is too capital intensive and has a large incubation period. I dont think in near future, we will be able to make a make a major difference barring a few breakthroughs here and there
Wonderful read, this. Quintessentially speaking, universities need to deliver on such knowledge and research related crisis situations. The author has headed a behemoth like Delhi University in past, and has more than indicated what ails the system. Simultaneously, he has indicated the presence of unacknowledged brilliant works from within, that can go a long way in redeeming what universities should ideally stand for in pubic esteem.
This happens when Govt. strangulate every innovation. Our Universities are more concerned about Tests, Dharnas, Fees, Fests and Jobs. No consciousness of a part of wider society.
I have a light disagreement Sir , as far as I know about IIPH Gandhinagar which too is an Indian University, It had series of community engagement efforts via social media, developed videos, chat shows, IEC material in vernacular language, English and Hindi …………………..
Indian Scientists are no different from ordinary Indians who have slave minds that doesn’t allow them to think independently and have confidence in their approaches. I have recently seen few allopathy doctors ridiculing a sole Ayurveda doctor in a TV debate on Corona virus. They reject any thing Indian even without proving the ayurveda prescriptions wrong. However, they accept any thing said by westerners again without proving it themselves. Indian Scientists are mere users of Science invented by west.
If, God forbid – you have fever, cough, sore throat and breathing trouble in the next few days – do take your favourite ayurvedic prescriptions instead of going to a hospital, and report the results here. Bhakts are the antithesis of science and reason.
With due respects to the former vice chancellor. The funds available for any one of the foreign university may be more than 25 such Indian universities. As a former vice-chancellor, the author would know how much funds were available for any research in biology. Most universities make the students doing PhD’s and MSc to buy their own kits used for the their and junior’s degrees. Because resources are scarce, almost all the guides design there own problems and instead of working for a single problem and pooling limited resources. Many a time they work at cross purposes. With such a large population , which some of elites call as human capital, all the governments have done is only paid lip service to any research. Unless the private companies and government take interest in the research and make a effort to pool intellectual and financial resources on few real and meaningful problems, we are never going to be on cutting edge of any scientific developments in Biological research. We were able to ride the information technology and software wave, because all we needed was simple PC, which quite a few of us afforded. We had the intellectual capability to utilize the scarec resources and make a reputation in the field of software. But research in medicine /biology is too capital intensive and has a large incubation period. I dont think in near future, we will be able to make a make a major difference barring a few breakthroughs here and there
Wonderful read, this. Quintessentially speaking, universities need to deliver on such knowledge and research related crisis situations. The author has headed a behemoth like Delhi University in past, and has more than indicated what ails the system. Simultaneously, he has indicated the presence of unacknowledged brilliant works from within, that can go a long way in redeeming what universities should ideally stand for in pubic esteem.
This happens when Govt. strangulate every innovation. Our Universities are more concerned about Tests, Dharnas, Fees, Fests and Jobs. No consciousness of a part of wider society.
An Indian opposition mindset. If you don’t have a solution, blame the government.
A bhakt mindset. Nothing will open their eyes.
We disagree.
JNU, AMU, JMI are at the jihadi forefront.
By chanting la illa illah they are successfully converting this secular country to Islamic state.
And here we go again, with false, irrelevant, bigoted comments from brianwashed bhakts.
So true. Its more sad when these are illeterate people roaming on the internet.