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India has had a long and unbroken tradition of great scholarship — in mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, logic and ethics. Yet, in parallel with this, several superstitious and obscurantist attitudes and practices flourished in our society and unfortunately continue even today — among many educated people too. How will you use your knowledge of science to develop strategies to counter these attitudes ?

Illiteracy and a lack of rational thinking are what make the people of India superstitious. So in order to eradicate the superstitious and obscurantist attitude we have to first overcome these factors. Everybody should be educated, so that one can have a scientific approach towards the real life problems. Knowledge of science can be put to use to prove the myths that is conceived in people's mind. It is important for people to understand there a logic behind everything happening in the world. 
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