Raising Hackles  (English, Paperback, Dinesh C Sharma)

In the 1970s, several international research and funding bodies had important medical and agricultural projects and experiments running in India. These projects involved World Health Organisation, U S Department of Agriculture, Rockefeller Foundation, Smithsonian Institute, US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and US Department of Defence. Did some of these projects have a secret agenda? Were PL-480 funds misused for military related research in India? Did WHO become a tool in the hands of American consultants? A young Indian science journalist - trained in America - decided to raise some of these questions and seek answers to them through his investigative reporting for the wire service, Press Trust of India (PTI). He rose to become one of the finest science editors and a mentor to several generations of Indian science journalists. This is the story of Dr K S Jayaraman (born 1936) who is credited with founding the genre of independent science reporting in India. It is about the life journey of a scientist-turned-science journalist who successfully raised the hackles of powers-that-be in India.