In many of the Nature India forums we have discussed the problems in the ‘basic science research’ in India. Here, I am going to raise a discussion on the root of all those problems. And to me, it lies in the “basic science education” in the country. Right from the school, when a child opt for science stream, he/she is destined to struggle for a position in medicine, engineering or information technology. As if these three branches meant the whole tree of science. Although some are able to make into these fields, a majority of science students count themselves as failures. And when such frustrated and demoralized failures enter into higher education and then research, how can India expect a position in Modern science?
Think…
1. Is it not the time to change the outlook of science students in India?
2. How the importance of basic science research can go deeper into the minds of the school children?
3. How the parents, who pressurize their kids to become IT professionals, engineers and doctors, can also help them to become scientists?
4. How the teachers, educators, policy makers, administrators… can help in Indian science research too?

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