Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan: Developing a scientific culture is no mean task

The appointment of biologist Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan as the principal scientific advisor to the Government of India has come at a crucial time. On one hand, the country is progressively moving towards scientific temperament and on the other,  there is a section of people, including ministers, still bogged down by misconception and superstition. Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan recently claimed that physicist Stephen Hawking once said: "our Vedas might have a theory superior to (Albert) Einstein’s law E=MC2."

A major responsibility for researcher-turned-administrator VijayRaghavan will be spread to the word of science across the country, supported by his vast