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India produces smart scientists but is struggling to retain them
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hindu
Research flourishes when ideas compete but suffers when people compete for proximity to power. Many of India’s laboratories continue to operate within rigid hierarchies that would appear strange in leading scientific institutions elsewhere in the world
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