That platform included an exhibition called The Nobel Prize: Ideas Changing the World, and also brought nine Nobel laureates to the country to participate in conferences and school and university interactions. These activities beg the question of why there are not more Nobels from India, and what that says about the state of science education. India’s level of investment in R&D, according to the latest Economic Survey, is 0.7% of GDP which is relatively low on an international scale. The result: 26 Japanese laureates compared to India’s 12 (including laureates by citizenship and ethnic origin). It is telling that among India’s academic Nobel laureates, a considerable proportion have spent years of research within foreign education systems — one indicator, perhaps, of how far India has to go in this regard.

Source: The Hindu May 07, 2018 18:45 UTC