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Design and development of new drug molecules are essential for the survival of human society. New drugs are designed for therapeutic purposes to combat new diseases. Besides treating new diseases, new drug development is also needed to treat pre‐existing diseases more effectively and reduce the existing drugs' side effects. The design of drugs involves several steps, from the discovery of the drug molecule to its commercialization in the market. One of the most critical steps in drug design is to find the molecular interactions between the target (infected) molecule and the drug molecule. Several complex chemical equations need to be solved to determine the molecular interactions. In the late 20th Century, the advancement of computational technologies has made the solution of chemical equations relatively easier and faster. Moreover, the design of drug molecules involves multi‐criteria optimization. Classical computational methodologies have been used for drug design since the end of the 20th Century. However, nowadays, more advanced computational methodologies are inevitable in designing drugs for new diseases and drugs with fewer side effects. In this context, the quantum computing paradigm has proved beneficial in drug design due to its advanced computational capabilities. This paper presents a state‐of‐the‐art comprehensive review of the quantum computing‐based methodologies involved in drug design. A comparative study is made about the different quantum‐aided drug design methods, stating each methodology's merits and demerits. The review work presented in this manuscript will help new researchers assess the present state‐of‐the‐art concept of quantum‐based drug design. This article is categorized under:Technologies > Structure Discovery and ClusteringTechnologies > Computational IntelligenceApplication Areas > Health Care [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the process of colonization, the university has become the standard model for higher education in modern India. However, the normative status of the university and its emergence has come at the cost of deculturation of the vernacular pedagogic cultures that existed outside modern frameworks of knowledge. This is very pertinent in the case of India, where the whole paradigm of higher education has been derived from the Western model of universities, without due recognition of whether this was fit for purpose within the Indian context. Reflecting on the recent protests over the recruitment of a Muslim teacher in the Faculty of Sanskrit Vidya Dharam Vijnan at Banaras Hindu University (India), this paper examines the pitfalls in importing a 'traditional' discipline into the 'modern' university. It points to how both camps -- the conservative and the liberal -- foreclose the possibility of imagining 'Dharam Vijnan' from outside the axiomatics of the 'modern' university.