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During my PhD time @IISc, I heard him, I saw him and may be, at one point, may be we shook hands with each other, I dont remember clearly. Except for his foreign style I dont remember anything. I hope you understand what I mean by foreign style.

From the point of his "Ribosome Research Work" - That was one of the Fundamental, most difficult, wonderful and one of the most fascinating works then and to some extent even now. He definitely should have shown persistence to go that uncharted mile farther to bring the knowledge about Ribosomes into the visible and brighter light.

I appreciate and admire him from that angle, being myself an admirer of crystallography first and a protein crystallographer second. He getting a Nobel prize for that fundamental work is some thing of an achievement. I should HAIL him for that.

The later part of his reactions, post nobel prize announcements, the horrible remarks he made about the emails etc., just proved that he is a common ignorant human. He may be, still, a good scientist, (which now I reserve to say so), but definitely has shown the ignorant side of his human character.

Here is my take on How and What should have been the Maturity that this Nobel laureate should have shown before exposing his ignorance, his immaturity as a Human, his inability to be a superior human, except for a scientist by occupation, and nothing else.

He should be knowing all the following philosophical thought process which he didnt have.

1. Life is NOT all about science or scientific /technological achievement.
2. Personally, its wasting a whole life if one does not plan for an all around development, being conscious of his/her bigger goals, immediate occupations and priorities.
3. Doing science as an occupation is only a part of the occupations for survival. There it ends.
4. The bigger goal is and/or should be 'Living' NOT 'survival'.
5. The bigger and universal goal should be 'Impacting your own self residing inside you and enabling you', 'providing some gratitude to the inner being'.
6. Life has more to it.
7. Just because one self is provided with a lab / facilities and a less responsible and/or irresponsible life style calling it 'freedom', to do the &quotonkey/labor" work forever to promote some fundamental research (which eventually has no value to one's own self development) calling/encouraging/branding it as 'passion' is ignorance.
8. One need not forget about the very purpose of living or show a blind eye to more fundamental and self promoting, introspective questions for which we have taken birth i.e - Understanding ourselves, Whats next and the 5 Ws of ourselves, our origin, HOWTOs of becoming a human from animal instincts residing inside every human etc..
9. The transformation of an animal inside a human to a true human is possible through hard work and continuous learning from the hard work, analysis and acquiring knowledge there on.
10. Those who are satisfied with these MAN-MADE, EGO-DRIVEN, IDENTITY CRISIS Driven(at various levels) awards including Nobel Prize, will never evolve themselves into Humans wasting a whole life.

Seems like he didnt learn from his hard work. He still holds his frustration that "India/Bharat" has not given any importance because of which he had to think of greener pastures . He would not have been as intelligent as and as a human as the rest of the human beings around him at that point of time in India.

Seems like he didnt acquire sufficient knowledge to become a better human.

His biased and ignorant remarks made me loose all my admiration for his work.

Bottom line:
This guy is still a human with lot of animal instincts/ ignorance. Since he is not having the maturity, I am glad he disowned his own country, mother land.
Such guys are NOT needed.

Further, he has insulted his own intellect which is because of the Intellect, mental energy of the country, NOT his own. -He doesnt even have gratitude for his own intellect. 

What did he learn in 50 years ?  So very ridiculously ignorant guy.
so, I would say - To Hell with.