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Introduction

"It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty,

of insanitation and malnutrition, of illiteracy and obscurantism of superstition

and deadening customs, rigid traditions, and blind beliefs, of vast resources

going to waste of a rich country inhabited by starving millions." These words

of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, while delivering the

convocation address of Allahabad University in 1946, indicates the importance

of science in human life.