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No Single 'Earth Shaking' Invention From India In The Last 60 Years, Says Narayana Murthy

No Single 'Earth Shaking' Invention From India In The Last 60 Years, Says Narayana Murthy
Outgoing chairman of Infosys, N.R. Narayana Murthy watches proceedings during the 33rd Annual General Meeting of the company in Bangalore on June 14, 2014. In his last address as chairman, N.R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys welcomed the IT major's new CEO and MD Vishal Sikka, and said that the current CEO SD Shibulal will leave the company on July 31. AFP PHOTO/Manjunath KIRAN (Photo credit should read Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)
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Outgoing chairman of Infosys, N.R. Narayana Murthy watches proceedings during the 33rd Annual General Meeting of the company in Bangalore on June 14, 2014. In his last address as chairman, N.R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys welcomed the IT major's new CEO and MD Vishal Sikka, and said that the current CEO SD Shibulal will leave the company on July 31. AFP PHOTO/Manjunath KIRAN (Photo credit should read Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)

BENGALURU -- There has not been a single invention from India in the last 60 years that became a household name globally, nor any idea that led to "earth shaking" invention to "delight global citizens", IT czar N R Narayana Murthy said on Wednesday.

"Our youngsters have not done much impactful research work despite being equal to their counterparts in intellect and energy in Western universities," he said delivering the convocation address at the Indian Institute of Science here.

Listing out 10 major inventions that Massachusets Institute of Technology has created in the last 50 years that includes Global Positioning System, Bionic Prostheses and Microchip, Murthy said these happened because students and faculty at MIT "walked the untrodden path, asked the unasked questions and used their intellectual prowess to take huge leaps".

"They demonstrated unusual courage to achieve the plausibly-impossible. The story is similar at many other western institutions of higher education," he said. He said almost all inventions such as cars, electric bulb, radio, television, computers, Internet, wifi, MRI, laser, robots and many other gadgets and technology happened, "thanks to the research by Western Universities".

He added: "On the other hand, let us pause and ask what the contributions of Indian institutions of higher learning, particularly IISc ans IITs, have been over the last sixty-plus years to make our society and the world a better place? "Is there one invention from India that has become a household name in the globe? Is there one technology that has transformed the productivity of global corporations? Is there one idea that has lead to an earth shaking invention to delight global citizens?"

The co-founder of the country's major IT firm Infosys said, "Folks, the reality is that there is no such contribution from India in the last 60 year. The only two ideas that have transformed the productivity of global corporations -- The Global Delivery Model and the 24-hours workday -- came from the company called Infosys."

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