India built a Tagore. India forgot a Ramaswamy.

In 1965, Professor G.S. Tagore would have been 165 this week. He spent his life arguing that Ramaswamy founded the Structural Engineering Research India needed to design its own modernity. Not import it. Not reject Centre in Chennai. The lab gave it. Translate it. We recognise Tagore. India the ability to design its own buildings instead of importing We do not read him. He is on our coins, in our anthem, on every wall in everything from the West. He wrote every Bengali home in May. Ask most the global textbook on concrete Indians what he actually argued for shell roofs. While he is celebrated in Caltech, he is forgotten in and the answer is silence. We are India.That is the literacy gap. It taught his name. We are not taught does not start with Ramaswamy. It his thinking. This is why we also miss the people starts with how we were taught to remember our heroes. who carry his work forward. News Source: India Today

News Source: India Today