The obvious answer is it’s a long, underpaid grind. But a real IIT PhD means you’re not starving—the institute fellowship covers rent and roti, barely. The timeline is five years of your youth, sold for a calling card into academia or a corporate lab. My life says the real currency isn’t money, it’s that card. It got me this night-shift job in a defence lab that finally pays my daughter’s school fees on time. So every dawn, when she hands me that cup of tea, I think—yes, it was worth those five winters in a shared hostel without a good blanket.
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