‘We found the zero, but we need not be ciphers’ Prof. A. Jayakrishnan, professor of Biotechnology, IIT Madras and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Kerala The recent outburst of Prof. C.N.R. Rao, the Bharat Ratna recipient, that the country’s investment in higher education and research is subcritical and marginal has attracted considerable attention. Prof. Rao’s utterances caught the attention of the media not because of the merit of his statement, but because he seemed to have made politically incorrect remarks without realising that his position as scientific advisor to the Cabinet demands that he be politically correct. As scientific advisor to the Cabinet for over...
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