Let’s cut the crap. You and I both know India is never going to win a Nobel, i.e. if this play-safe mode persists!!! Let me elucidate...
A Nobel is NOT a lifetime achievement award. It’s an award for a trail-blazer!!! They don’t give a rat's ass whether you were selling panipuris for a living before you made a path-breaking discovery that opened a whole new avenue that didn’t exist before. India’s greatest living scientist CNR Rao is arguably one of the best chemists in the world. But he probably never will win a Nobel unless he makes a breakthrough.
Indian science is a follower and not a leader in the global arena. And followers do not win Nobel prizes. Indian scientists are persuaded to pursue safe lines of research that guarantee publications. James Rothman, this year’s winner of the medicine Nobel, was told that he was “nuts” to attempt to reproduce the cell’s complexities. The US university system tolerates and even rewards this kind of courage, no matter what results they bring. There is, sadly, no such kind of tolerance in India. And thus, no Nobel!!! It’s been more than 80 years now and for India, with a large research infrastructure, a complete absence of Nobel Prize winners is a serious paucity!!! Think about it...
A Nobel is NOT a lifetime achievement award. It’s an award for a trail-blazer!!! They don’t give a rat's ass whether you were selling panipuris for a living before you made a path-breaking discovery that opened a whole new avenue that didn’t exist before. India’s greatest living scientist CNR Rao is arguably one of the best chemists in the world. But he probably never will win a Nobel unless he makes a breakthrough.
Indian science is a follower and not a leader in the global arena. And followers do not win Nobel prizes. Indian scientists are persuaded to pursue safe lines of research that guarantee publications. James Rothman, this year’s winner of the medicine Nobel, was told that he was “nuts” to attempt to reproduce the cell’s complexities. The US university system tolerates and even rewards this kind of courage, no matter what results they bring. There is, sadly, no such kind of tolerance in India. And thus, no Nobel!!! It’s been more than 80 years now and for India, with a large research infrastructure, a complete absence of Nobel Prize winners is a serious paucity!!! Think about it...
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