It was the free flow of modern science into colonial India that enabled a C.V. Raman to earn a Nobel Prize and a Srinivasa Ramanujan to contribute to modern mathematics

xA senior retired official of the Andhra Pradesh government recently posted a complaint addressed to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the social media. His son had sent him a book as a birthday gift but the Indian Customs department officials were holding it back, demanding all manner of paperwork and proof of identity and residence. The fact of his being a retired official and a member of the Indian Administrative Service was not adequate. The documents he submitted to the Customs authorities were returned six times as being inadequate proof of his bona fides.

All this, said the retired official to the financ

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