Reminding of hard work by researchers, I remember when we did our Ph.D., we used to take photograph on film camera, wash the film ourselves in the dark room, purchase kodak rolls of photographic paper, cut this and develop prints ourselves in the dark room. Those were the days when research meant doing every thing yourself. There was no printing available. Type the whole manuscript on manual type writer, three or four times, after every proof correction, and when final draft was ready, get 4-5 copies of this and for this you had to use 4-5 carbon papers, press each stroke of type writer hard so that impression reaches to all the copies, and then get it bound after inserting the photographs (mounted on A4 sheets). Luckily the things are much easier now.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Respected Mam > Thanks a lot for the mail. I think this is surely going to be a > fruitful discussion, though we may not be able to change patterns of > UGC or journals but hopefully we would be able to change our > perceptions for the betterment of students. > Yes if you ask me, if I did it, yes I did it. I went to multiple > libraries as much as I can. Still if I go anywhere the first thing I > do is to look for whatever i can find on my plants. I work 20hrs a day > on average and sometimes didnt sleep for 3 days on average. Where my > colleague did his PhD in 3 years, I finished it in 6 years. > I do believe that many good workers dont get recognition and thats > really sad, especially indian researchers, it like outsiders dont > trust their work. It is the perception based on some of the fake > researches in India which created bad impression about the good people > too. I hope such perception changes with time. I always believe in > hard work and the second thing which a researcher should have is > patience for sure. People running after money cant do good research!! > but thats the fact of life in India, where a good job is considered > better than a good education. People can leave research in the middle > to get a simple job just because its permanent. > But still we have good researchers available in India who can raise > the quality of research and hence recognition of indian researchers to > higher level. I am always hopeful for a better life, better > perception, better output of researchers in India in future. > My best wishes to all, and dont forget I am also a researcher :)) so > you all should give your good wishes to me too :P... > Pankaj >
