Caught at silly point - my response to Bharatratna

With great respect to him – my response to Sri: CNR Rao

I don’t find any merit in the argument that all bright young guys are moving in to I.T because it has more money – I don’t think our Indian scientists are making any money less. So it is an individual choice people choose what profession he wants to be in. We have top IITians clearing UPSC and joining as Civil servants. People with great educational qualification in engineering and science quitting their jobs and starting business in hospitality & travel even SPAs. You can’t control that. After all a seasoned chef/attendant in good hotel makes the same salary of a mid-level IT guy. It is of the trend in India like mid-eighties and before my father generation felt happier to be an engineer or in Army. The current trend will be replaced by something else in the future.

Students are more interested in IT because of not only money but also

• It has more opportunities – creating thousands of jobs every year
• Life style of IT professionals is another attraction – after all  speaking English itself is a big attraction in our country- hope you get that
• Process of recruitment is faster than comparatively to any government organization – it does not take ages to select/Reject a candidate
• Flexibility to move to other organizations is more

It is a silly over-generalization by Bharatratna CNR Rao – wont it sound ridiculous if one says “investing so

much of money in Mangalyaan is useless in a country like India where more than half of the population does not even have access to toilets – and science is not going to change these lives” it will be really unfair to say that, agree?

I don’t agree with his argument of saying IT is not science – come on what is not science in this world?
Try to imagine our lives without IT - starting from Online banking to booking tickets online  - mobile phones, social media, it made our lives so comfortable – it is bringing everything to our finger tips

Another comment by him – IT folks are a bunch of dissatisfied souls – you would have people committing suicides in every form of business and  in every profession – there could be so many reasons behind it, BUT NOT because they work in “I.T” Rao sir – will it be fair if we say “all scientists are bunch of selfish people enjoying the money of people and not putting efforts to carry research on things which will change common man’s life rather space” ? – we are proud of our scientists for what they have done.

Look at the employment IT sector is creating every year – how many people are indirectly benefiting from it – you don’t have to degrade IT to prove scientists are great/superior.

I can’t agree more with him saying our politicians are idiots - fair enough, he made his point very clear .But don’t we know this already “why is he trying to reinvent the wheel? And getting in to trouble.

 India should invest more money in science no doubt in that – but India also should invest more in educaton,sanitation and many more – so science is not the only sector ignored by our politicians

At the same time look at any ground breaking invention from Galileo to Newton to Einstein – they did not do it with the help of governments – all inventions we enjoy today are not a result of institutionalized effort by government’s – they come out of intrinsic motivation to change the world and deep curiosity of a human being – govts can be of very minimal help.

Finally coming to the point of I.T guys being arrogant – I think to a large extent it is a perception – because they wear more westernized clothes, put and artificial English accent and speak English even in places where they can happily speak their mother tongue and other small things make them look arrogant – otherwise they are also working really hard to make their life better – earn more buy a house/car or go on a vacation.

More money invested by government will not guaranty inventions but creating infrastructure, nurturing the culture of science will definitely help our country. We Indians are so complex people we talk about improving scientific temper but ISRO chairman goes to the temple to pray that launch of mangalyan should be successful. Nothing wrong in it just that we are too complex.