The Curious Case Of Intellectual Property
When I was thinking about writing this article on the business of Intellectual Property some names crossed my mind and I had an urge to retract. I wanted to be a bit careful to not belittle the contributions of some of the greatest minds that walked on the spiritually charged land called India where intellectual property is often misunderstood as some real estate or as an excuse to fund and celebrate a bustling generic drug market. You can almost manually count how many individual household computers in India have a genuine licensed copy of Microsoft products. I recently read a fascinating post by none other than one of the most erudite and wordsmith that I know - Soumya Kanti Roy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/soumyakantiroy). Recently Mr. Roy posted a note on Mr. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, a teacher and researcher of Physics at Ashutosh College in Kolkata, who developed a mathematical model on black holes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9_hm2qe34s). Mr Roy narrated how the yo