For many parents with the means to consider it, this is a puzzling time - Undergrad studies in India or abroad? Here are a few pointers.

I was silently declared an outcast, and even being seen talking to me was a crime enough to invoke the HOD’s displeasure against the party seen with me.

Suddenly my mother turned to me and said, “I sent you to the US to do a Ph.D. Where is it?” I turned to her and laughingly said, “Normally, people write one thesis. Here are my three," pointing to my daughters.

An interview with Dr. Mamta Jaswal who became the first woman PhD holder in Mining Engineering from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad on 22nd December 2022.

A man doing a PhD is rebuked for not earning well. A woman on other hand is constantly questioned why she's doing a PhD when she should have been married and raising kids.