Articles by K VijayRaghavan
India’s galactic ambitions hold crucial lessons
Isro’s extraordinary journey shows the importance of combining fundamental science with application, and taking on audacious goals despite all constraints
Updated on Aug 25, 2023 10:28 PM IST
India can be a world leader in science
India has the scale of the economy, industry size, start-up ecosystem, market, and resources to be one of the top three in the world
Updated on May 28, 2023 08:17 PM IST
India joins the big league in science
With the dawn of LIGO-India, the world can watch the sky and determine precisely where and when cosmic collisions happened
Updated on Apr 19, 2023 10:57 PM IST
G20 must set up an international panel on technological change
The panel’s mandate will be to assess where we are and where we are headed in the future when it comes to “post-human technology”. Unlike IPCC, which deals with much longer time scales, IPTC will need to work much faster and nimbly. It seems to us that the G20 is the right-sized organisation for chartering such a panel and enabling its functioning.
Published on Mar 19, 2023 08:18 PM IST
Martin Rees, Shivaji Sondhi and K VijayRaghavan
How to build a new innovation structure
The Rama Rao-Hamied- CSIR bond made HIV/AIDS drug accessible. To succeed, they broke the walls between scientific institutions, researchers and industry. This must now happen routinely
Updated on Feb 08, 2022 08:43 PM IST
K VijayRaghavan
Ending TB in India by 2025 is ambitious, not impossible
As part of the new national strategic plan, every TB patient will have access to free diagnosis and treatment irrespective of whether they seek care in the public or private sector
Updated on Mar 21, 2018 09:10 AM IST
K VijayRaghavan
National Science Day: Investment in blue skies research will pay rich dividends
What is urgently needed is institutional science leadership that is ambitious, nurtures creativity and protects it
Published on Feb 28, 2018 11:08 AM IST
K VijayRaghavan
India must shed intellectual colonialism to excel in science and technology
While overthrowing political and economic colonialism, we have missed overthrowing intellectual colonialism. In making English the sole language of intellectual discourse in science and technology in India, we have lost on many fronts
Updated on Nov 27, 2017 07:46 PM IST
K VijayRaghavan
Science education, research: India should embark on new adventure
India can do wonders in the sciences by joining quality with support for science education, research and applications, writes K VijayRaghavan.
Updated on Oct 15, 2015 07:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K VijayRaghavan