A circular issued by the Central University of Kerala asking all the departments to prepare a list of projects for PhD scholars in line with "national priorities" has triggered a national debate.
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To Prof Vandana Mishra, people of the country owe nothing to politicians. They owe to us and they are representative of people. We are neither their slave nor they are our masters by any stretch of imagination. How does a semi-literate politician or a just about literate babu know about furthering a field of knowledge. My professor during my doctoral studies had told me that I know what I want to do. He will only help me explore the subject and the field by asking searching questions. That is the way a PhD scholar has to be treated. Only then we can get back our past glory. Otherwise, this time the politicians and babus will enslave us, earlier it was outsiders.
GOVT can prioritize research on “nationally important PHD topics” by funding these topics i.e giving incentives in the form of awards/funding/fellowships etc rather than forcing researchers to take up specific topics. There are lot of projects that govt funds, it can notify projects which are essential for the indian state and indian citizens. checking malpractices like taking up ‘easiest research topics/two people working on nearly similar topics’ ……..
While prof Neeladri Bhattacharya and prof Dinesh Singh are right in some sense that ‘research can not be forced on researcher’ but in my opinion in lower level HEI’s specially state universities—phd’s and the research topics have become the biggest jokes. Both the professors are talking about an ideal state of affairs but in reality the ground situation is different. In India we have to deal with the ground situation not ideal universities and bulk of our HEI’s are these state universities………
The following comments are welcome and are thought provoking, but what good research the odd 400 state universities and nearly 50 central universities are doing.
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prof dinesh says :”For instance, in a subject like Mathematics, a lot of research being done may seem unimportant today, but the impact of it is often seen years later.Einstein’s theory of General Relativity could easily have been refuted and dismissed as not being a national priority when he was theorising the same.”
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we must analyze the research done over the last ten years [despite the fact that in 2009 major fellowship/scholarship schemes were launched i.e. despite researcher getting public money for doing research ] in these universities and decide for ourselves what is the level of this research……or is it comparable or anywhere near the originality of “general theory of relativity”………..
IF IN INDIA LOWER LEVEL HEI’S WERE DOING GREAT/ORIGINAL RESEARCH INDIA’S RESEARCH OUTPUT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TOPPING THE PREDATORY JOURNAL’S . please read this publication (words from this article:India is also among the major contributors of articles published in poor-quality predatory open access journals):
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India’s scientific publication in predatory journals: need for regulating quality of Indian
science and education
G. S. Seethapathy*, J. U. Santhosh Kumar and A. S. Hareesha
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what are the ranking or prestige of these state universities at the global level. In my opinion these universities and their research are no where the world standards………..these are not universities but degree distributing factories…..to prop up literacy rate…………………..
Total aversion to intellect. Difficult to judge whether aversion to talent is cause or effect. At this rate, India will cease to matter to the rest of the world.
To Prof Vandana Mishra, people of the country owe nothing to politicians. They owe to us and they are representative of people. We are neither their slave nor they are our masters by any stretch of imagination. How does a semi-literate politician or a just about literate babu know about furthering a field of knowledge. My professor during my doctoral studies had told me that I know what I want to do. He will only help me explore the subject and the field by asking searching questions. That is the way a PhD scholar has to be treated. Only then we can get back our past glory. Otherwise, this time the politicians and babus will enslave us, earlier it was outsiders.
The self-styled “secularists” have made secularism a joke in our country, the ultra-nationalists have made many allergic to the word ‘national’!!
GOVT can prioritize research on “nationally important PHD topics” by funding these topics i.e giving incentives in the form of awards/funding/fellowships etc rather than forcing researchers to take up specific topics. There are lot of projects that govt funds, it can notify projects which are essential for the indian state and indian citizens. checking malpractices like taking up ‘easiest research topics/two people working on nearly similar topics’ ……..
While prof Neeladri Bhattacharya and prof Dinesh Singh are right in some sense that ‘research can not be forced on researcher’ but in my opinion in lower level HEI’s specially state universities—phd’s and the research topics have become the biggest jokes. Both the professors are talking about an ideal state of affairs but in reality the ground situation is different. In India we have to deal with the ground situation not ideal universities and bulk of our HEI’s are these state universities………
The following comments are welcome and are thought provoking, but what good research the odd 400 state universities and nearly 50 central universities are doing.
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prof dinesh says :”For instance, in a subject like Mathematics, a lot of research being done may seem unimportant today, but the impact of it is often seen years later.Einstein’s theory of General Relativity could easily have been refuted and dismissed as not being a national priority when he was theorising the same.”
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we must analyze the research done over the last ten years [despite the fact that in 2009 major fellowship/scholarship schemes were launched i.e. despite researcher getting public money for doing research ] in these universities and decide for ourselves what is the level of this research……or is it comparable or anywhere near the originality of “general theory of relativity”………..
IF IN INDIA LOWER LEVEL HEI’S WERE DOING GREAT/ORIGINAL RESEARCH INDIA’S RESEARCH OUTPUT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TOPPING THE PREDATORY JOURNAL’S . please read this publication (words from this article:India is also among the major contributors of articles published in poor-quality predatory open access journals):
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India’s scientific publication in predatory journals: need for regulating quality of Indian
science and education
G. S. Seethapathy*, J. U. Santhosh Kumar and A. S. Hareesha
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what are the ranking or prestige of these state universities at the global level. In my opinion these universities and their research are no where the world standards………..these are not universities but degree distributing factories…..to prop up literacy rate…………………..
Total aversion to intellect. Difficult to judge whether aversion to talent is cause or effect. At this rate, India will cease to matter to the rest of the world.
You can tell right away who is an urban naxal and who is not.