COMMUNICATION 57 foreign dependence is dishonourable and harmful. They should avoid collaborative agreements with foreign institutions and discourage foreign training and fellowship. Anything foreign should be viewed with suspicion and scrutiny rather than with servile and automatic approval. 2 They should dissociate themselves completely from foreign-controlled industries or units and stop acting as service agents of units run with foreign collaboration. Similarly scientists and industrialists connected with foreign-controlled units should not be allowed to be associated in any way with them. 3 They should try more and more to involve themselves in the day-to-day lives and problems of the vast under-privileged masses, study their existing problems, suggest simple solutions, provide simple remedies and improvements to existing techniques rather than think only in terms of sophisticated western technologies, and carry the message of science to the people, not in high-sounding irrelevant theories but in concrete real-life applications. 4 They should work out and develop technologies appropriate for dispersed, small-scale, labour-intensive industries in all spheres (f'technologies of inequality reduction" as called by A K N Reddy) combined with increasing use of local resources and local manpower—all of which will help in generation of employment, reduction in import and in capital requirements, reduction in transport and other unnecessary social overheads, and in balanced regional development and social justice. 5 They should engage in development of such products and processes as would serve to meet the basic essential needs of the general masses, and shun Western consumer-society model sophisticated products and processes which will only perpetuate and legitimize the present transplanted concepts and programmes of development. C S I R—SCIENTIFIC WORKERS" ASSOCIATION