The fixed effort to create a false equivalence between an outdated system and the brand new is unlikely to assist college students who have to make a crucial analysis of the validity of historical knowledge in opposition to trendy wants. At no time has India wanted a sharpening of the scientific mood as now, when very day comes with breakthroughs that push the boundaries of science. India is a long time behind in crucial areas of growth. Science, stated Carl Sagan, is greater than a physique of information; it’s a mind-set. That was what Jawaharlal Nehru, who arrange IITs in several components of the nation, beginning with Kharagpur in 1950, tried to make Indians do by inculcating the scientific mood in a folks caught within the thrall of fantasy and non secular superstition: “The scientific approach, the adventurous and yet critical temper of science, the search for truth and new knowledge, the refusal to accept anything without testing and trial, the capacity to change previous conclusions in the face of new evidence, the reliance on observed fact and not on pre-conceived theory, the hard discipline of the mind, all this is necessary, not merely for the application of science but for life itself and the solution of its many problems.”
Today, the federal government and its supporters denigrate Nehru and science. IIT Kharagpur is a centre of excellence for IKS.