“Hills Road 6 form student wins Nobel Prize.”

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan said in his interview to Indian Express Walk The Talk:

Shekhar Gupta: Science is a good beginning. I’m happy to say that about myself — I’m from a generation of musicians forced to study science.

• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan: My feeling is that even if you are not a scientist you really should have a certain minimum education in science because we live in a highly technical society. How do you know that the right decisions are being made by your government or people around you? We talk about pollution or global warming. How can you even judge if these things are meaningful or not? If you have a fundamental background in science even at the high school level, it does help you come to grips with the problem instead of taking someone’s word for it.