Big Science
In order to march boldly ahead into the deep space, New Delhi must work towards building a station, boost its techno-economic planning and use the Indian Space Research Organisation smartly. The 2020s will be a decade of space stations. The well-established space powers — Beijing, Moscow, Washington, Paris, Tokyo
science planning
The Indian political leadership is realising a long-neglected tenet: In the post-modern world, nations do not build universities but universities build nations. A well-developed, largely autonomous university system can help the Indian middle-class flourish and the economy grow by leaps and bounds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
S&T Policy
After many centuries, India has a chance today to participate on a level playing field in the upcoming technological revolution. Scientific research has today evolved into a multi-trillion-dollar cooperative enterprise for achieving economic and societal advancement, unlike in antiquity when it was limited to a connoisseur’s pursuit.
Big Science
A tectonic shift is occurring in the science landscape, wherein newly-developed nations are audaciously investing in frontier scientific research at par with developed nations. India is game to join this new wave of advancement, but its research-funding mechanisms are deficient. Can Indian philanthropy endow indigenous R&D?