तिश्ना—लब

Indians have always had a great pride in their ancestral heritage, be it individualistic or collective. It sure is worth and there is much more in India that one can be proud of, for instance, the area of arable land available to Indians or biodiversity profile of India or something more under one's control - saving our economy from financial crisis in 2008 (and more). That is OK. That is acceptable. What is not acceptable is bad science, complacence and fake pride in the bad science. Now, I don't have to list out all the instances defying scientific temper here. They are all over the place -news, internet, social network. They have invoked a lot of criticism from the scientific community in India and abroad (for example, this ).  The point I want to stress here is the great divide between the general understanding of people about science and what it actually is. Now, being brought up in a family in which some believe in the origin of varnas from various parts of Brahma...