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Why did the government disapprove of his activities?

This article doesn't make clear why the Indian and West Bengal governments took such a negative attitude toward Dr. Mukhopadhyay's work on in vitro fertilization. I might understand if, for example, the government had religious objections to such activity but I wouldn't expect a Marxist government (as West Bengal had) to object on such grounds. I would have thought that the national and state governments would take pride in the fact that Dr. M. had placed Indian medical science in regard to IVF ahead of the USA, France, Australia, Japan and all other countries except the UK, and only a couple of months behind the UK at that. Did the government not believe he had really achieved IVF? --Metropolitan90 10:03, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the answer lies in some sort of professional jealousy and abuse of power. There was a film inspired by the incident. Ek Doctor Ki Maut (Death of a Doctor) (please see this and this). Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 20:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The most possible explanation is that in the seventies, India felt its backwardness so much that its people had an inferiority complex about everything Indian. The craze for "phoren" articles is still within living memory. It was impossible for the 'expert committee' to acknowledge that what had been done in UK only two months earlier with the cutting edge technology was achieved in India, by an Indian who independently thought of the same technique, with locally available equipments. They denounced his work. We must be grateful to God that C.V.Raman did his research in the University of Calcutta during the British rule. Otherwise, another 'expert' committee would have declared him insane. By the way, can anyone trace those 'experts' now, and ask their views? Who are they? Any names available? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.212.83.119 (talk) 17:15, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article reads as though it were copy/pasted

The way the article is written suggests very strongly that it was copied wholesale from another, uncited source. I don't know anything about this topic, and therefore can't clean it up myself. But someone really ought to rewrite it. Bluemonkee (talk) 05:32, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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I don't think that's the end of the copyvios, though. The suspect text was placed in the article in April 2008. MER-C 13:12, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tone of Article is not that of a biography

It sounds more like a personal view and not a biography. This needs to be rewritten with a neutral viewpoint. 2kaibiswas (talk) 08:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]