Decolonisation is a word that has been in trend lately. Many different people have different ideas about decolonisation and I too have an idea of what a completely decolonised India would look like. People associate decolonisation with repealing colonial institutions that have long stopped working for the people but rather only work against them, a linguistic reform which would enable a pan Indian Identity and a cultural narrative for India which would give it a firm footing to fight the universalisation of western values sometimes even by force. (For ex: Syria and South Korea). The one aspect of knowledge system and perhaps the most fundamental and important i.e. science is where people don’t expect nor do they even comprehend that any kind of decolonisation is needed. People not only in India but around the world accept that science developed in the west because of obvious reasons like the government propaganda and the not so obvious reason: school/University texts and experts. The...