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Conducting research is always a precarious task for everyone involved.From the researchers to the participants (if there are any), it may feel like a barrage of cold facts on paper

Ever put your heart and soul into something, only to see it crumble spectacularly? Welcome to the club.

When you are young and just starting out in your career, it could prove to be a highly enriching and rigorous experience if you commence with a research internship offered under a professor’s supervision.

Knowledge is like a vast ocean. No matter how much a person learns, there always remains plenty to discover and explore. Pursuing research is like taking a deep dive into this massive ocean of knowledge, and emerging out of it with some fresh discoveries and insights.

Engaging in research involves a pursuit of creating new knowledge and scraping through existing data to arrive at new insights. Researchers are either driven by a pre-determined research question that they have in mind, or they look for a gap by surveying the field in a particular broad domain.

I remember when I first started my university life, everything seemed so important, every event seemed necessary. I wanted to participate in every event going on: every cultural fest or debate seemed like a must-attend affair.

As the great philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Our past isn't just a dusty photo album; it's a living story that explains the world around us.

A career in research often involves spending long hours testing out a hypothesis, analysing data, and reaching conclusions. The first step in research is to clearly define the research problem and formulate a clear plan to carry out the investigation.

One of the earliest things that a researcher needs to decide when embarking upon a project is the methodology that s/he will use for her/his research.

As someone deeply fascinated by human psychology, I’ve often noticed the immense pressure we students (myself included), put on ourselves to excel in every facet of our lives, especially academics.