India, March 15 -- The public always looks at the scientific community whenever they are in dire straits. Farmers seek help from agriculture scientists when serious pests affect their crops, or there is a drastic decline in productivity. Similarly, the public looks to medical scientists for help whenever a pathogen attacks humans. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how, every day, the ordinary person eagerly looked at research work from various labs. Covid-19 reinstated the common man's confidence in scientists. The current generation that has overcome the COVID-19 catastrophe is deeply indebted to scientists for their lives.

Even though there are hundreds of scientific fields, agriculture and health care are close to the day-to-...