The reader would be astonished to know that there isn’t a single prominent institute with which Mr .Rao is not associated or worked with worldwide !
Many accomplished scientists of our country M M Sharma , V K Aatre, Roddam Narasimha , R A Mashalkar , U R Rao considers him as guru of gurus.
In this book Prof Rao shares the hurdles he faced doing science in a country which had least infrastructure post independence and yet became self reliant in many spheres , no doubt he demands for more allocation of funds for basic research, more industry support to research etc.
Though professor had offers to stay and continue his research in University of California, Berkeley, MIT , Oxford, Cambridge etc he choose to come to India

His sprit to excel in science is increasing exponentially with his age ( 86 now ) doing first grade science even now. His soul lies in Bangalore where he was born , brought up, studied , did research and Varanasi where he got his masters at Banaras Hindu university!
He is an ardent music lover ( Bismillah Khan ) , reader of Da Ra Bendre, Shivaram karanth ( whom he considers worthy of Nobel prize) Rabindranath Tagore and Kabir Das etc .
If you want to know more about Indian science this book is a must read !
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