The Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship promises a direct path for bright graduates and a lateral entry for those in M.Tech or post-graduation, with an annual review to retain the stipend and a mandatory teaching assistant duty. But let me tell you, this mandatory teaching—it becomes a heavy plough on a scholar’s back, pulling time away from the real research field. I left the program because assisting in classrooms felt like ‘bhogobanor ichha’—God’s will—but a will that scattered my own focus like autumn leaves. My son’s own studies in Guwahati now remind me that a fellowship must nurture, not divide, a student’s purpose.
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