PhD Supervisors in India: A catalyst or a hindrance to progress?

In my personal experience, PhD supervisors in India are more often a hindrance rather than a catalyst for your progress in career and life. The system is so corrupted and rigged, and the research culture and scenario is so broke down that no feasible solution exist for the same.

Politics, huge egos, dramatic behaviour, toxicity, narcissism, mental traumas and harassment, what not?

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Positive vs Negative response

7th March 2024 A thought just hit my mind today. Like I am suffering a lot of challenges and obstacles in getting married to my long time girlfriend. She has been with me in all the ups and downs since a decade now. However, just because we belong to an orthodox Indian society divided on caste, color, culture, region, religion, and multiple other differences, one has to suffer a lot on multiple stages in many aspects while taking important decisions in life. My girlfriend belongs to a different caste, and is from another state and will surely bring an entirely different set of culture and mindset with her when she will be marrying me. Parents mainly remain scared due to cultural differences, perspective issues, and the part where there are high chances of huge toxicities and arguments which can adversely affect the harmony of the families. In India, the marriage is never between the two individuals. Parents from both sides are involved, then the relatives comes in the picture and so

Mental Health: A Basic Overview

Ever lived in a state of depression, anxiety, sleep-deprived mode, and panic attacks? Ever tried searching for symptoms of these disorders on the internet? What are these? What do they do to a human brain or body? Are they external or internal? How can they be controlled or prevented? Just like a liver fails, a kidney fails, a heart fails, similarly a mind fails as well. You eat junk, you impact your gut health; you drink junk, you impact your kidney and liver; you smoke junk, you impact your lungs and heart. Similarly, as you go on feeding your mind with junk thoughts, it also gets impacted in a similar way. So what actually is mental health? How can you control it and connect your thoughts and emotions and achieve a mental balance? Good mental health does not mean that one doesn't have mental illness. It is about having a sense of purpose in life getting involved with creative things coping with stress and setbacks in life forming meaningful and close relationships being in tou

A weird paradox

25-35 is the age that if you are in struggling to development phase during this age then you find it very difficult to share it seeking solutions from others. For example, currently I am facing huge struggles, obstacles and complication in my PhD due to lack of proper amenities, toxic research culture, politics on may levels and layers, egos and corruptions involved, untimely delays, resource allocations, and then in the end complex, unpredictable, and weird support and supervision as well. There's too much stress at the work place. Add to that, I am literally suffering from too many prolonged injuries since past four years, now the pain is becoming severe day by day, and I have developed new issues as well. I suffer from herniated spinal slip disc issue, which is severely affecting my neck, spine, lower back, and my kneee. Then I have achilles tendons, and heel pain issues from past three years due to past many basketball and football injuries. I had minor accident accident also

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