Our talented young Associate Deekhit Bhattacharya has authored yet another interesting book titled ‘Fixing Science in India: A Socio-Economic Prescription’.
Why care about science & technology? This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics to Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt is an indication – the root of sustained economic growth is technological progress, and that involves a lot of innovation, i.e., creative destruction. How has India fared?
This is what Deekhit’s new book co-authored with Gautam Desiraju, intends to explore.
Since science and technology are closely intertwined with national strategy and the economy, they form the very foundation of India’s power and self-reliance. Beyond isolated islands of excellence, such as ISRO or the DAE, India has and is doing poorly for itself. In multiple critical scientific and technological fields, using robust, quantifiable metrics, we arrive at the same conclusion once we stop deluding ourselves with heroic solitary successes. This imperils India’s economic growth greatly, and if there is one reason that could ensnare India in a middle-income trap, it’s the shambolic state of our S&T apparatus.
Fixing Science in India: A Socio-Economic Prescription surveys the trajectory of Indian science from 1835 to 2025, encompassing both the colonial and post-independence periods. The book examines India’s early socialistic model of development, which had disastrous consequences for science. This model enabled a small gatekeeping class of scientists to monopolise limited funds and block the entry of others. As a result, the challenges confronting Indian science have deep social and economic roots that demand urgent attention.
This book is not only for scientists, but for all those students, policymakers, industrialists, businessmen, and like-minded citizens of all stripes who wish to have an honest engagement with the true state of Indian S&T, what went wrong, its causes, and consider the time-bound proposals on reforming the Indian S&T complex to deliver the results that our country deserves, and to take us from incremental drifts to disruptive breakthroughs.
While amongst the endorsees, the book has many veritable scientists including K Vijayraghavan, former Principal Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, and P Balaram, former Director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, it has also received a very gracious endorsement from Sridhar Vembu, the Founder of Zoho Corp.
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