Swaroop and Siddiqi, however, dismiss the allegations as politically motivated. Argues Swaroop: "The bottomline is, there are very few good scientists left and we, at least TIFR, cannot promote the average." Siddiqi believes that like any other institution, TIFR has grown unmanageably bigger and older, making it inescapably bureaucratic. This, he feels, has "affected the quality of science produced". The renowned molecular biologist is not happy with the way the Porter Committee went about their job. "This review, the first in 50 years, should have been done every decade. The committee should have spent six months studying the institute's affairs to do a good job of it. What wisdom would they have gained in a week?" Charges, veiled or otherwise, are being traded between the two dominant groups as the academicians await the Porter Committee's report. Whether the SFOT recommendations for a change in the structure and in the evaluation norms of the institute will be accepted is still unknown. But meanwhile, reality moves further and further away from TIFR's idealistic origins.