AS-68-THE-WORLD-OF-SCIENCE

After interacting with several people on the street, I felt, their perception of science and scientists was very interesting to notice.
Some told me that science was beyond their understanding and they, therefore, place it at unreachable heights! (So I painted it on the top of a mountain). Some said that the scientists lived in the domains of their own and were inaccessible to them! (The fort represents this perception). According to them the doors of the world of science are closed to a layman! The only connection from the scientific world to the common man’s world is through media! Media interprets science in its own language and therefore cannot always be considered as correct and a gap always remains between the scientific and ordinary worlds. So I painted this picture of common man’s sketch of science with media people in two small houses at the door of the “Fort of Science”!
However, majority of the people I came across agreed that scientists try their best to spread light around the world and remove darkness.
( I must add here that more and more scientists are coming out of their fort’s these days and are trying to interact with people outside. The doors of the world of science are not closed. They are just ajar. If people try to open them completely, they too can get inside. All that it needs to get into the arena of science is their interest in science!)