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India's apex scientific research body is facing flak after questionably hiring and firing an expatriate scientist. Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju ponders over CSIR's policy on such recruitments.
K. Anantha Padmanabhan, Mercator Professor of DFG (German Research Foundation) at the Institute of Materials Physics, University of Muenster, Germany and a former director of IIT Kanpur speaks to Mohit Kumar Jolly on 'superplastics', science education and doing science in India.