There is not just one way of kindling the scientific temper found so desirable by the Constitution amongst Indians. There have been, over millennia, many different methods of understanding the underpinnings of the world depending on whether the scientist or mathematician was Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Harappan, Greek, Chinese, Islamic, African or Indian. Rediscovering the roots of STEM in our own country may be no bad thing if it leads to renewed interest and vigour in this field.