Part 1: Professor K Muralidhar- History of Indian Science

[@jeevanshudhawan]

At 16:17. We have islands of excellence in a sea of mediocrity. Well said, sir.

[@jeevanshudhawan]

At 24:24, original work has to have a lag phase; as we call it jocularly, 10-15 years of silent original work, without fanfare, without noise, without publicity, that produces great work. But, people are in a hurry because you will be assessed every year. If you look at some agencies, I won't name it here, they want 6 monthly reports, progress reports, So, whole project period, you will be writing reports only, where is your time for designing experiments, think of new things. And if you look at project proposals they ask everything, short of asking, what is the expected result. There is no research component in nine out ten research projects. All project reports are very good. So true.

[@sutanukadas5955]

Excellent analysis of Indian Science Sir. Being a research scholar in the domain of Experimental Biology myself, I can relate to each and every point spoken by Sir. We the research scholars are indeed looked down upon and the meagre scale of fellowship that we receive really undermines our efforts.

[@imtryam]

Privileged to be your student, Sir. Much much respect. 🙏

[@dr.p.kathireswarisaminatha2222]

Privileged to meet a person like you, my salute and respect to you sir

[@jeevanshudhawan]

Kambadur Muralidhar is a distinguished Biologist of our country and was born at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.He obtained his BSc and MSc from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He Started his research work under LK Ramachandran, at Osmania in the summer of 1969.He obtained his PhD from IISc, Bangalore in 1976 working under NR Moudgal.His PhD work, demonstrating that beta subunit of Luteinizing Hormone can bind ovarian receptors fetched him the Prof KV Giri Memorial Gold medal for the best PhD thesis of the year.He was selected for the first Lecturership in the School of Life Sciences at the newly founded Central University of Hyderabad in August 1976.During 1979-81 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at SUNY, Buffalo, New York, USA with OP Bahl.His Work led to the development of the most sensitive RIA for HCG, a pregnancy hormone.He also demonstrated the immuno-contraceptive vaccine potential of DS5-hCG beta subunit.He joined the University of Delhi in 1983 as Reader in Biochemistry and became a Professor in Endocrinology in 1988.He was Chairman of the Department during 2001-2004. www.sau.int/faculty/faculty-profile.html?staff_id=74

[@navneetchopra7880]

Great talk! Appreciate all views except a few ones. I think, creative, analogical thinking is required even in science - works of Einstein (imagining himself sitting on a light photon while thinking about constancy of speed of light in different reference frames...) or that of Feynman (connecting a wobbling plate thrown in a restaurant with a problem in quantum physics...) demonstrate this. Rather, it is abductive thinking which is required to conceive insightful relations between things already known. And this requires deep thinking, probably visualizing and experiencing the concepts in one's own flesh and bones which enables one to see the connections between different ideas or views... appearing in the form of radical hypotheses. And this requires basic curiosity to explore, to know why things are the way they are... pursuing research not for the 'pragmatic' reasons of making flourishing career... we need to encourage and nurture this basic curiosity, and create some other avenues for making a career for those who don't have this basic curiosity... We need to train researchers to see things as part of a coherent whole rather than treating them as collection of fragmented pieces ...how things/concepts are connected with very basic sensory-motor and affective experiences and not something entirely abstract...

[@jeevanshudhawan]

29:34 India does not have an education system, it only has an examination system - Prof. C N R Rao.

[@perryfroze]

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[@Chemistry_4All]

Charan Sparsh Sir. Feeling blessed to see you here. I am thankful for your all teachings you availed me.

[@VishnusEndeavours]

Educated people should follow this channel

[@sanjaymandakmale6363]

It’s really enlightening 👌☝🏻🙏

[@greenheaven_30x]

Sarita...mam...again..a new n big venture to a paradigm shift our beloved Country future generations...every bit of words are eye opening ..for me...huge huge. Thanks to sir...for letting us to travel from British Raj to present day ..we hope to add few more relevant experience in our feild...for a budding student like.me..its a huge treasure.. thanks many wishes for ur all future endeavours ...

[@jeevanshudhawan]

Practical experience should precede the theoretical construction of knowledge. --- Prof. Yashpal. Very true.

[@vikasmishra8406]

Very Critical Observations...... Salute you Sir

[@vigyanchaupal6062]

Such important topic and only 20k views in 6 years..........very discouraging and shows the interest of people of this country.

[@atanudasgupta]

shows the average mindset

[@perryfroze]

Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus...

[@PratapSingh-is4eb]

Such a wise man.

[@riddhisingh1]

" dream of Jawaharlal Nehru did not happen". What a great mind. I wish I had stayed focussed in his class and continued. He was my biochem professor and biochem was my Achilles heel😔

[@VishnusEndeavours]

Very good channel

[@jogeshmishra7020]

Sir ,well said at 33:00 min

[@atanudasgupta]

He is so correct !, mediocrity, Job security, politics

[@sateeshkumar1733]

very nice information sir, particularly you said that the scholars should gain the ability to solve the problem. Many things you spoke are really true, there are some assistant professors who joined as new faculty are publishing high impact factors to get their promotion done fast and they continue exactly whatever they carry from their post doc guide, just copying the same whatever is done by some unknown foreign scientist. Its very important to work on the problems that our country is facing now, we certainly need a guide who is working in problems of this type. Before sanctioning the funds weather the agencies are looking at the applicability and the relevance of the problem to our nation or global science? or do they just sanction based on the proposal, which contains a descriptive history of the problems? Is it possible to come up with a set of research problems that we can work and useful to our nation?

[@kakaliroy4747]

15:17

[@manas7536]

15:10 on iitians

[@jeevanshudhawan]

Even in humanities and social sciences, intelligence is required. It is not only memory based. I disagree with Sir over here. They too need to think critically. A fact that I realised while I was reading various books and visiting Jawahar Lal Nehru University in Delhi, during the recent strife between the Vice-Chancellor and the students.

[@NikhilRatnaNeuro]

Intelligence has many facets. A type of understanding in neurosciences is Language skills vs algorithmic/calculative skills. Former is more for humanities and latter is more for science. Science is more objective and humanities & social sciences are plagued with subjectivity.