Quite sometime back I had a lively chat with some guy who was hell-bent on selling me the greatnes of Indian engineering ingenuity. My point is simple, we hear of some notch brain like Kalam, Arunachalam, Nair linked to Space, misile and other programmes. The governmen's thinking is hopelessly linear about his issue. We are overly dependent on Academic geniuses who however are yet to put to test the practical applications of all their theories. But these high-brain are sufficiently able to conveince the politicios with their high pitch talks to continue some or the other dud programmes. Indian Army alone is not to be blamed. There is too much of beuracratic policying about the entire sphere of defence preparedness. India is on a shaky ground.
