Senthil Babu creator text xu| 2004 continuing ng p.234-37. Modern science for M. Singaravelar was to be used to emancipate the working class as well as to introduce rational thinking in public life. While science came in to legitimate the set agenda, its aims and goals were reconstituted, providing credence to the slogan `science for the people' - making science popularisation an essentially political activity. - Reproduced. Science and technology Social change Singaravlar, M Economic and Political Weekly 180718