RESEARCH : A PASSION and PROFESSION

Making your passion as your profession is just like getting married to your first love. Research can be a typical Indian Woman , if you are dedicated to it then it will provide you all the satisfaction that you need, but if you want a temporary stand, doing research can be very frustrating. So before choosing research as profession you should be clear what you want.

The most frustrating thing about research is that you can't earn money when you are capable of spending. It is slow process like a Dam Biriyani which takes great time to cook but results in greater taste and good for health. But the general quest for quick money, quick success and materialistic hunger force us to do some thing that is not belong to us. Many of us forced ourselves to live a life which we are not intended to.

But the obvious question is asked then why we find so many reason not to pursue to make our passion as our profession, instead fail to find a single reason to do research. I think this question is more political, economical, and sociological rather than scientific.

1. POLITICAL REASON: Modern era research generally very specific in nature, it needs very dedicated infrastructure which include the 3Ms(Man, Money, Material). The political will power to Attract Man, to Bring money and Provide Material for research. But the political spot light of our country keeps issues like this out of focus for very long. But now we can seen some kind of improvement in it. But till now the efforts are not of the required magnitude. Keeping the longest lasting INDIAN philosophy "In the end sub kuchh thik ho jata hai " , I am dead sure that we will able do excellent research in future.
2. ECONOMICAL REASON: Largely ours is a developing who struggle most of its Independent era in getting the economy in the right track. We loose our valuable time in deciding in whether it would be a closed one or open one. The initial confusion leads us to dark days of license raj, and red tapism which leads to slow development. But post 90 openness bring much needed FDIs which acts as a ventilator for our dying economy. As now we can interact with the world without killing ourselves the money for high end research is available. So the future seems bright.
3. SOCIOLOGICAL REASON : "Beta kya karta hai, naukri nahin kia kya" , are "beti sadi kyun nahin karwate" are the consequences of British education system which made us thinking that after graduation education become complete optional. People asks question "are kuchh mila nahin kya, mtech kyun kar rahe ho??"/ "Kya frustu jindegi hai, abhi bi padh raha ha" to phd scholars, thanks to IT and co, who says concentrate more on English rather than ur engineering fundamentals, we will hire u as "CYBER COOLIE". These workplaces can be considered as a grave yard of INDIAN TALENTs. IT companies waste their tremendous man power in editing some pre existing code and sending them to US/UK where they can click some pics and post them to social networking sites and increasing their values in marriage market. So when u choose to do some research a label put on ur head that u r unemployable @ these companies and therefore u r here.

So the important here to conclude that if u want to come to research and wants take it as career then make sure that it is ur love only ..............


Regards
Jhalak