As a young adult, I understand insecurities at a very personal level, but trying to curb it by turning a blind eye is not the answer. Denial does not change the truth, and the truth is that we need a lot of investment in science and technology, right from middle school to post-doctorate education. Even if Indian history was better than modern science, how does that matter now? Thousands of kids die each month from something as trivial as diarrhoea. We need more investment, and change can’t and won’t happen overnight. Europe and America took hundreds of years to become the leaders of science. If we want to join them, we need to start investing before we can even think of catching up.