The Invisible Scientist in India -- a case study for emergent countries

Emergent countries such as India, China, and Brazil, face unique problems in the realisation of their science and technology potential. I will discuss the situation in India, which may be relevant at least in part to the others. The basic focus of the talk will be the possible ways in which the invisible scientist, the person on the ground who has no part in the pyramid of the science establishment, can be rendered more visible—both for her or his own sake, and to prevent the erosion of an enormous intellectual potential by a still continuing brain drain.