The Indian Express column uses the author’s PhD thesis work to argue that research integrity and seriousness in scholarship must survive periods of pressure, uncertainty, and turbulence. The central idea is simple: a difficult environment does not reduce the value of academic work; it raises the responsibility to remain faithful to the original intellectual promise.
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