Sky lord
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Hi Jamahir, what do you want me to say? I agree that we have too much rote learning in our schools and averse to taking risks, but that is mostly because india is still a poor country and for much if the past 60 years we were more concerned about saving ourselves from famine and starvation than anything higher order.that is true enough... it requires a different mentality - one of questioning, simplifying for oneself, doubting the "wisdom" of the traditional elders ( including family ), taking risks, dropping out of college or job to pursue one's ideas, being confident about oneself, being confident about one's ability to judge a great idea of another person, being far-sighted, being ambitious, wanting to contribute to humanity etc... these are absent within majority of indians and this is partially to do with indian republic not coming from a revolution ( like ussr, libya ) or a armed struggle for independence ( like algeria ), but a society that had most of its structures been already prepared by the departing british colonialists.
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@Sky lord , your opinion on the topic?? do start from the op.
For the level of development we are at we have actually contributed much MORE to science than other countries at the same level of development. I would love to know of a single major invention from the arab world including Algeria or Libya in the last 60 years. By and large if you aggregate/compare countries with similar per capita income like. Bolivia or tonga or Syria, india has actually contributed MORE than these aforementioned countries.
Education is slowly improving, money is being put into research, I think the effects will be visible in a decade or so. The most important thing is to fix the economy, everything else will fall in place. If you look at second or third generation kids born to Indian parents in the West, not many are following in the safe paths of their parents, we have doctors kids going into acting and lawyers kids who start up bands, Professors kids who become professional sky divers. in fact isn't Murthy's son in law a politican ? Again not a normal or "looked up to" profession for the indian middle class. I do believe Indians are talented and hard working and our culture for thousands of years has respected education and the quest for knowledge, so sooner or later the chips will fall in place.