Monday, July 8, 2013

Science and Scientific Society, A Personal Experience


Science is the base that can only lead a society to the right direction. Even though it is a controversial comment, whether impact of science is good or can lead to harsh dilemma of living being. But the most important thing is not, weather science is good or harmful to us; indeed it is beyond our thinking too to avoid science in this stage. So we have to move on that track and have to find solutions, may be recreation of problems and again solution until nature won’t take any further strict action against this selfish creature, human being. However, Nature has developed us, she has been teaching us and brought us to the recent stage and she may take care of us too. None of these is our business of our real interest, though we are making so many protocols with time.

Source: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Basically survival in this earth makes us to practice slowly with the unpleasant structure of system. First we hate the system and slowly we adapt ourselves. This is the practice, which is being followed with time, though a few are against such type of misleading rules, but their Hippocratic Oath merges in huge unpleasant smell slowly.


Today, I am going to discuss about an experience I have gathered in my small period of research and personal life too. I will start with an example; usually I used to face with engineering students. Once a B.Tech. student asked me about my past academic life. I told him that I worked in NCL-Pune as project trainee before joining IIT Bombay. Then he asked me what NCL is. I replied him that NCL tends for National Chemical Laboratory, first CSIR laboratory in India. Then he asked me again what CSIR is. I was just shocked in his questions. And this has been repeated during discussions many a times with technical students. Why they are still unaware about CSIR, India's largest R&D organization. Why CSIR is unable to make a proper bridge between science and technology since long back; though it has been established in 1942. There might be negligence or unwillingness to make a bridge, the cause behind failure to act with the prudence with surrounding society. The crores of funds are invested for them, which are basically a collection from common people in various forms and it makes them responsible to make aware about their work to all the common people. It can be in the form of some basic science workshops, understandable to common people or any other activities.


Until their practical understanding to the society and accordingly their action, only publishing research papers in high impact journal can’t change the present situation of India. Rather it will be only a war of individual position in the society.


Author: Chandan Das
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