Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.