The ISC, which predated Indian independence and is considered one of the finest assemblies of scientific minds all over the world, had earned notoriety for professing pseudo-science, much to the chagrin of the community, immediately before it was shut down

xPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that India is working to build a modern innovation ecosystem and is focusing on improving ease of doing research in the country as well as his exhortation that the focus of research should be shifted to addressing the emerging challenges faced by humanity are welcome but how the government he heads has conducted itself in facilitating these noble aims in the last one decade is a bit uncertain.

Interestingly, the Prime Minister was speaking at the first edition of the Emerging Science, Techno

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