Winning the grant is less about the proposal and more about navigating the endless review panels where someone will always ask, "But is this truly indigenous, yaar?" Then the spending begins—we all rush in March because the purchase rules are so tangled that nobody wants to risk leftover funds, leading to that pile of spectrometer boxes in my corridor. The real headache isn't the JRF slots or the utilisation certificates, it's the accountant who still files everything in a physical register and panics at the word "GST." I know this because my own project's new centrifuge has been stuck in customs since February, all while I'm filling out forms in triplicate.
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