THE TALK
It might be odd to aver that Indians shun science, this in a country that is lauded as a fount of software engineering, has just touched the heavens with Mangalyaan, and will likely make most of the vaccines for the world. But, the fact remains that India dramatically underinvests in science, to her detriment. Perhaps worse, we seem to eschew a scientific mindset to privilege instead a variety of other modes of reasoning – parochial concerns, religious sentiment, tradition. While these have their place, the Talk will illustrate the costs of our apparent science-phobia by briefly discussing benefits of higher scientific literacy which we could tap into in three disparate Indian settings – the moribund market for jobs among youth, a polluted environment, and crumbling art and architectural heritage. To be clear, this is not a diatribe against the humanities and the social sciences, of which groups in the academy the speaker is a card-carrying and proud member, rather it’s an attempt to direct attention to a costly societal myopia.
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