Indians: Where do we stand ?
From the early days, when I was in school, I used to form an analogy between our Indian mythological stories and my science book, carrying in my mind what western countries are inventing/discovering today, we had invented/discovered thousands of years back. But where all that have gone? We do not see anything from that today. Everything has remained in the stories. It had given me a sense of disappointment when I did not find any Indian name (except in Raman’s Effect) in my science text books. We give excuses that we did not have resources. But tell me did Marie curie and Marconi had any resources that we could not have here at that time. We people had really missed the opportunities. We should stop boasting about our glorious past and should work for the future. During my Engineering course when I was preparing for a seminar on Quantum Computers I came across the fact that even the countries like Israel are very much ahead of us in this field and we are doing nothing....