The Indian Science Congress has covered the distance from the shores of scientific temper, as Jawaharlal Nehru envisioned in the 1940s, to the precipices of distempered science theories. This isn’t the first time the ISC has been gifted with the richness of retrograde science theories. At practically every science congress thereafter, some session or the other has yielded fantastical theories. In 2016, Indian-origin Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan refused to attend any future ISC event, saying “It was a circus”. The model of comic performances appears to have been inverted today.

Source: Indian Express January 08, 2019 18:45 UTC