Indian Science Cruiser

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This year being the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, its celebrations should inevitably unleash a variety of activities. One cannot rule out few mundane overtones on Tagore, which may not be even within miles of recapturing Tagore innovatively. Tagore’s legacy being invariably overwhelming, of course in qualitative terms, any centennial remembrance of Tagore ought to bring to the fore the evolving nexus with times. Contemporaneity, whatever be the period, has a compelling dimension in seeking ideas for which Tagore might have given some glimpses. As is wellknown, having dwelt on ‘crisis in civilization’, he could not possibly foresee the fetishes, one makes about ‘clash of civilization s’ nowdays. To him, culture has an overriding edge despite several disquieting impediments. Even today, facets of the culture, keep on emanating.

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Prafulla Chandra Ray, widely known as P C Ray, has, even during his 150^th Birth Anniversary Year, assuredly an inexorable image. Although he had few other celebrities, born in the same year, his is a remarkable exemplar of a preceptor who plunged himself to volunteerism, without dispensing with the quintessence of renaissance that still kept on lingering in his period. The scientific spin-off of renaissance seemed to be in the offing. True that J C Bose and P C Ray, could become, in academic realms, the precursors of science renaissance that could be sustained by Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha, Jhan Chandra Ghosh, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, Debendra Mohan Bose, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabis and other luminaries. It is equally true that he could obtain a robust ally in Sir Asutosh Mookerjee for building up institutional edifices in science.

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The word ‘change’, though a buzzword nowadays and aspired few months ago in different areas, is fast assuming a complexion by a handful of users. Is the vision that one used to associate earlier is losing gradually what it ought to have on a continuing basis? Or, is it something of the process of visualization that’s still in the offing? Did the erstwhile environment have a different vision? Were they useful at all? How did reliably the earlier features of change exist? Perhaps, emotions couldn’t be engaged appropriately earlier, far from predicting something.

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‘Inclusivity’ as a word is fast coming to stay, largely because of its use in some aspects of human activity. It looks now that no other verbiage has received so much of stimuli and forms, too. Innovative attributes/features ought to be on the anvil. On the other hand, criticalities may have to be encountered in respect of its variants. Few queries may naturally arise. One may pause and should seek for responses of questions like: Does inclusivity have an historicity uniquely of its own or through its usages? Shouldn’t inclusivity have moorings as well, so as to make its allies flourish with several add-ons? Surprisingly, inclusive growth is a talk of the day, despite the economic setbacks, downturns and so forth. But, somehow or the other, realms of education seem to have an edge over others. This cannot just be attributed to what policymakers keep on harping on in the aftermath of the recent enactment of Right To Education (RTE).

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