Real Science Is Humble

In the late 1960s, when the country faced a severe food crisis, Lal Bahadur Shastri asked people to forego cereals once a week. And the country followed

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• the National Knowledge Commission does not focus only, or mainly, on the formal sector of knowledge
  
• elite institutions must receive support, but not at the cost of others
  
• small-town colleges, polytechnics, ITIS are strengthened. They must constitute the backbone of our technological infrastructure.
  
• the agricultural crisis and farmers' suicides should have put the search for sustainable solutions top of the list on the policymakers' table. This hasn't happened.

(Gupta is NIF executive vice-chairperson, IIM-A professor.)