Questions for colleagues and students across Indian academia:
1. Is it healthier to assure incoming PhD students that they will get their PhDs in 3 years? Or is it better to be honest that PhD is usually a 4-5 years affair, but can be sometimes completed a bit early or a bit later depending on the problem undertaken and circumstances one encounters while pursuing one's doctoral research?
2. Is it healthy to use tools such as ChatGPT for thesis writing to save time? How else does one develop the assimilate-question-research-analyze-write-conclude skill set that thesis writing imparts?
3. Should PhD students use their time to grow intellectually, deepen their scholarship and solve challenging research problems or should they start chasing grants during their doctoral program itself?
The way I have seen some "private university leaders" in our country answer these questions in the recent past has me very very worried. Very very worried.
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