1901,1904, 1909,1912, 1913, 1921, 1943, 1950, 1957,1973
"Everlastingly ingenious, ...humble products that made life better".
"Has the much-vaunted Indian R&D (with its "third-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world" and all that rot) done anything like this????"
And your point is,
1) since 1973 no country has invented an Everlastingly ingenious, ...humble products that made life better".
2) Between 1957 and 1973, (almost 16 years) no country has invented an Everlastingly ingenious, ...humble products that made life better".
Well, for you velcro and the barf bag maybe the greatest inventions. Indians may not have invented the paperclip but the impact that indian scientists have made to the world is far greater and needs no defense. For us 50 years of progress is what will fuel the next century. |
