Find space for new science, its ethical dilemmas

Context

What the editorial is about?

• The need to deal with complex ethical questions that result from advances in science and technology.

How good India is in discussing the advances in modern science and their repercussions for public life?

• In India, because of the election cycle, and because political events oscillate between their significance for an electoral democracy or their implications for an electoral autocracy, we spend little time discussing the advances of modern science and their repercussions for public life.
• There have been such fascinating developments in science and in technology, such as in artificial intelligence, but these have merely been reported and then have quietly faded from public view.
• In India, such advances in science and technology get adopted wi