without a solid foundation no one can buid a Spectacular castle, Scientist like Dr. Kalam and others were responsible for building that Foundation, You are talking abt Valid Phd degree & research papers, If Phd's and no.of research papers are the parameters, then we would have developed more technologies and wonders in the area of Science and tech than countries like Israel,Sweden etc..,i think it's silly to compare Dr. Kalam and Dr Kasturirangan, each one of them have their own merits, Dr Kasturirangan works on the lessons like how not to.. while developing projects and implementing them. Which was shown by their predecessors like Dr. Kalam and others... Mr.Jayendra Bandyopadhyay commenting abt others is easy but before that you have to conce.. on basics..
and i don't know what sort of Statesmanship Mr.Krishnan is talking abt? If Pratiba Patil, Sonia, Mr. Baradhan, Mr.Prakash Karat, Mr. Karunanidhi, and people like these are in his statesmanship list, then Dr.Kalam is not a Statesman.
