27/02/2026
SRINAGAR, Feb 26: Vice President C P Radhakrishnan on Thursday said the nation needs to let go of its colonial mindset to emerge as a global leader in innovations.
Radhakrishnan was addressing the 21st convocation of the University of Kashmir here.
"As a graduating student, I urge you all to focus on Swadeshi innovation and solutions that are rooted in Indian knowledge, resources, and needs. We need not be worried; we need not be inferior. We are to throw out our colonial mindset first," he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the country more vibrant and more supportive than ever before, he said.
"My best wishes to you to share the next big innovation, the next way of sustainable development, the next chapter in India's prize as a global leader," the vice president added.
Referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, he said the prime minister gave a call for all the scientists of the country to develop a vaccine for the epidemic.
"How many of ...