While I always mention about my all time intellectual hero Alan Turing in the introductory class of the courses I teach in IISER-Mohali, mentioning of Dr. Mukhopadhyay (well not samrat mukhopadhyay, its Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay) during my epigenetic class is irresistible.Many youngster are not being liked of being too critical of old headies in administration and bureaucracy. If any one wants to find out why, one of the best documented examples I could recommend is the case Dr. Mukhopadhyay. In fact, you can find a movie on that "Ek doctor ki maut" played by Pankaj Kapoor. He could have been the first in the world to make IVF successful, for which Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 and there could have been a possibility of sharing the Nobel with him, havent he been been harassed by government bureaucrats. Later, he committed suicide and his wife could not take it and got paralyzed. As Dr. Sudarshan Ghosh put it, just like in IVF, the embryo does not survive if you put it in bad culture media, a bright scientist will not survive in an environment of negligence and harassment. Damage done, but where is the apology from the Indian government? Will they repeat what Gordon Brown did for Alan Turing? Will they ever?
