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India haven't lost a game batting first. New Zealand haven't lost a game chasing. It is already set up so well.
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Pay:
• 30% Income Tax
• 18% GST on car insurance
• Around 60% tax on fuel
• Toll tax
• Road tax on your vehicle
After paying all this, you still wait for 1 hour on highway, for some corrupt politicians with thousands of criminal cases.
VIP culture is destroying India.
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To understand why we aren't aatmanirbhar in sci-tech even as China races with the American giants.
In 2006, my brother was doing his PhD.
Topic: Bovine AIDS.
Institute: a university in Mathura.
Coursework: HSADL, Bhopal, India’s top animal disease lab.
Then bird flu happened.
Suddenly, HSADL became the lab.
And suddenly, my brother was told to drop 1.5 years of research and switch topics.
Not because science demanded it.
Because the system did.
The deal was simple:
Change your topic, or lose your stipend.
He called me and said,
“I love my research. I don’t want to work on what babus want.”
For once, I didn’t give gyaan.
I gave him an exit.
“Apply outside India. Let’s see if anyone values your work.”
He applied to 8 universities.
7 in Australia, 1 in Europe.
Within hours, 7 offers came back.
5 with full scholarships and stipends.
The 8th replied three days later.
The professor was at a conference.
That’s it. That was the delay.
Why?
Because his CV was ridiculously good:
•17 international publications
•1 book
•54 national publications
•103 reviews
He went to Europe.
Finished his PhD.
Got a Post-Doc in Texas.
Applied for a Green Card.
Got it in 2 months.
Citizenship the moment he was eligible.
Still, he wanted to come back.
Because India is home & hope dies slowly.
In 2011, he applied for a professor’s job at JNKVV, Jabalpur.
Salary: ₹40,000/month.
They asked for hard copies of all publications.
I still remember packing a full carton of his papers and couriering it.
Then, on July 8, we got a letter dated July 6.
Interview: July 10. In person.
Bring:
•NOC from his current university
•Character certificate
•Hard copies again
Because “what if interviewers want to see?”
I called them.
“How does someone fly from Europe in two days?”
Answer:
“Interviews are till 12th. He must come.”
That was the moment we stopped trying.
India wasn’t rejecting him.
India was humiliating him.
Later, when he sent his HSADL work to Elsevier, the journal did a routine verification.
HSADL replied saying:
•He left without due process
•His stipend wasn’t settled
•His address was false
We sent:
•No Dues Certificate
•Formal relieving letter
•Proof that the address was the same as his passport
•Proof that our parents still live there
Didn’t matter.
Publication rejected.
That’s the system.
We happily talk about reservations. But we quietly harass competence.
And before someone says, “Things have changed under Modi” no, they haven’t.
I tried in 2023.
Same hard copies.
Same physical interviews.
I now work as a visiting professor with an IIT. Online.
My reimbursement request has been pending since August 2023.
The professor in charge says,
“I get 100 mails a day. I don’t check all.”
Fair enough.
This country doesn’t lack talent. It lacks respect for it.
And the smartest people don’t leave India for money. They leave to save their dignity
Varoon Singh 👨🔬 retweeted
In 2006, my brother was doing his PhD.
Topic: Bovine AIDS.
Institute: a university in Mathura.
Coursework: HSADL, Bhopal, India’s top animal disease lab.
Then bird flu happened.
Suddenly, HSADL became the lab.
And suddenly, my brother was told to drop 1.5 years of research and switch topics.
Not because science demanded it.
Because the system did.
The deal was simple:
Change your topic, or lose your stipend.
He called me and said,
“I love my research. I don’t want to work on what babus want.”
For once, I didn’t give gyaan.
I gave him an exit.
“Apply outside India. Let’s see if anyone values your work.”
He applied to 8 universities.
7 in Australia, 1 in Europe.
Within hours, 7 offers came back.
5 with full scholarships and stipends.
The 8th replied three days later.
The professor was at a conference.
That’s it. That was the delay.
Why?
Because his CV was ridiculously good:
•17 international publications
•1 book
•54 national publications
•103 reviews
He went to Europe.
Finished his PhD.
Got a Post-Doc in Texas.
Applied for a Green Card.
Got it in 2 months.
Citizenship the moment he was eligible.
Still, he wanted to come back.
Because India is home & hope dies slowly.
In 2011, he applied for a professor’s job at JNKVV, Jabalpur.
Salary: ₹40,000/month.
They asked for hard copies of all publications.
I still remember packing a full carton of his papers and couriering it.
Then, on July 8, we got a letter dated July 6.
Interview: July 10. In person.
Bring:
•NOC from his current university
•Character certificate
•Hard copies again
Because “what if interviewers want to see?”
I called them.
“How does someone fly from Europe in two days?”
Answer:
“Interviews are till 12th. He must come.”
That was the moment we stopped trying.
India wasn’t rejecting him.
India was humiliating him.
Later, when he sent his HSADL work to Elsevier, the journal did a routine verification.
HSADL replied saying:
•He left without due process
•His stipend wasn’t settled
•His address was false
We sent:
•No Dues Certificate
•Formal relieving letter
•Proof that the address was the same as his passport
•Proof that our parents still live there
Didn’t matter.
Publication rejected.
That’s the system.
We happily talk about reservations. But we quietly harass competence.
And before someone says, “Things have changed under Modi” no, they haven’t.
I tried in 2023.
Same hard copies.
Same physical interviews.
I now work as a visiting professor with an IIT. Online.
My reimbursement request has been pending since August 2023.
The professor in charge says,
“I get 100 mails a day. I don’t check all.”
Fair enough.
This country doesn’t lack talent. It lacks respect for it.
And the smartest people don’t leave India for money. They leave to save their dignity
Last night I spoke to a friend who left India years ago. We reconnected recently. She studied at BITS, got a scholarship for her master’s in Germany, and later on the German government funded her research on animal behaviour using computer science. Today, she has a full-time job there with a good package.
Cool. Happy for her.
But this isn’t a flex. This is a comparison.
In countries like Germany, research funding means funding actual research. You show up with a problem, data, methodology and a use case. The government backs you. Because they understand that science doesn’t need nationalism, it needs money and patience.
Now cut to India.
The Madhya Pradesh government recently spent ₹3.5 crore on “cancer cure research” using cow dung and cow urine. ₹3.5 crore. Tax payer public money.
In India, researchers struggle to get basic grants. Fellowships are delayed for months. Professors themselves discourage students from pursuing research because they know the system will not support them. If you want to do serious work, you are often told one thing very clearly: arrange your own funding.
Another friend, a classmate till 10th, went to IIT Dhanbad. Did robotics and AI. Got an internship. Finished graduation. Immediately got a job offer from Texas. Moved there. It’s been three years. Never came back.
Not because India didn’t need him. Because India didn’t deserve him.
This is the pattern
• Indian PhDs go abroad because fellowships here get delayed like train schedules.
• Top STEM graduates leave because research grants in India are buried under bureaucracy and political interference.
• Professors tell students not to pursue research because “government se funding nahi aayega.”
• Deep-tech startups register outside India because innovation here dies in paperwork.
• Indian-origin scientists lead projects at NASA, Google DeepMind after leaving Indian institutions.
And then we do this funny thing on internet. We clap. We tweet “proud Indian 🇮🇳”. After pushing them out.
Countries like Germany, the US, and France are aggressively hiring Indian minds. Not out of kindness. Because they know talent + funding = progress of their nation.
India, meanwhile, is busy deciding whether science needs evidence or belief. Studying animal behaviour using PyTorch and OpenCV sounds “useless” here. But finding a cancer cure in cow dung sounds “visionary”.
That’s not cultural pride. That’s intellectual bankruptcy. The scary part isn’t brain drain. The scary part is that no one in power seems embarrassed by it.
We’re not losing talent accidentally. We’re outsourcing our future, ₹3.5 crore at a time.
The real concern is not that India is losing talent. The real concern is that there is no serious urgency to stop it & without that urgency, slogans will continue to replace solutions while the future quietly moves elsewhere 🙏🏻
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This is not a complain but just an observation. We encourage people to walk, but the infrastructure is not supportive. The most neglected people in this country are those who walk on the roads rather than those who drive on the road. #MCD #SwachhBharat @PMOIndia
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The “matrix effect” is one of the sticky details that can make the use of LC for quantitative purposes challenging, even though it is conceptually quite straightforward. Revisit this topic in an article Dwight Stoll wrote for our March issue: hubs.li/Q03XRN-G0
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Authors created & validated a high-throughput method to screen for 30 steroid esters & a confirmatory method for 26 targets using dried blood spots. This may be an efficient, sensitive & automated way to distinguish between endogenous & synthetic steroids.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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NFSU Goa conducted a two-day online expert webinar on 11–12 December 2025, covering Anti-Dope Forensics, Drug Abuse in Sports, Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics, and Dope Testing in Humans. The Sessions were led by experts from the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), New Delhi — Mr. Awanish Upadhyay, Scientist ‘C’, and Dr. Varoon Singh, Scientist ‘B’. The event saw active participation from students and faculty across NFSU campuses, enhancing awareness of forensic applications in sports and anti-doping science.
NDTL Invites Applications from final-semester PG students for a 6-month training program in Dope testing.
🎓 Eligibility: M.Sc./M.Pharm
🗓 Apply by 20 Dec 2025
➡️ ndtlindia.com/career/
Seats: 10
#NDTL #ForensicScience #Biochemistry #DrugTesting #LCMS #GCMS
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Strongly condemn @Suhelseth for humiliating the British in the British Parliament !!!
Thin end of the wedge if darkies are allowed to talk down to the living embodiment of Britannic majesty!
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My lab is recruiting postdoc candidates interested in CRISPR synthetic biology and functional genomics approaches to study and engineer tissue injury responses! hsiunglab.org
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All goverment science award should carry cash + Grant compnent. The cash component should be very attractive say like 10 or 20 lakh and no string attached grant of 1 cr. No use of giving just certificate.....
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Doctoral Fellowship from @ResearchUGent for candidates from Global South to pursue PhD
€2,550 pm for 24 months
additional travel budget €8,000
In sandwich structure at Ghent University and in candidate’s home country.
Details at ugent.be/en/research/funding…
Apply by 17th Feb 2026
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MADE IN BHARAT, FOR THE WORLD 🇮🇳
Under the dynamic leadership of PM Shri @narendramodi ji, India is rapidly emerging as a global hub for sports science and innovation.
Proud to share that NDTL has developed a new reference material “methandienone long-term metabolite” to boost accuracy in dope testing by widening the detection window.
The material will also be shared with WADA-accredited labs worldwide, contributing to global anti-doping efforts.
