Communicating science in India An extremely brief and somewhat peripheral view

Scientific temper Nehruvian science and the independent Indian state “At one level it was a world without shadows. We felt that the idea of the third world was invented for us to lead it. We had a copyright on both the past and the future. But what we were proudest of was our democracy, which we repeatedly said was the largest in the world.” (Visvanathan, 1997) Article 51(A) (h) of the Constitution of India: “to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform” Also important: 51(A) (g) “to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wild life, and to have compassion for living creatures”

Principles of school curriculum Mathematics explained through hands-on exhibits. BITM, Maths Gallery

Students at the Innovation Hub learning computer-aided design, BITM, Kolkata

Science journalism landscape Most covered topics: health, biology, genetics, pharmaceuticals, policy, geology, ecology, biodiversity, climate change, nuclear physics, space engineering and, notably, the history of science Issue of language and reportage in various Indian languages: English and the question of good content Purchasing power and web subscriptions? A difficult transition. But the print medium is very much alive Scientific nationalism and the tangential issue of ‘pseudo-science’ for furthering certain political ideologies http://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/the-politics-business-and-publishers-of-indian-science-journalism-5105/