by DST-funded project at IIT Delhi investigates the structural barriers to research funding access for Indian academics, study is funded through a priority grant programme, researchers confirm the irony is ‘not lost on us’ and that the study’s findings will be submitted for further funded research
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat bring you this dispatch from Genie Knows India, covering the world’s largest democracy at scale and with full attention.
The Department of Science and Technology awarded a three-year, Rs 1.2 crore research grant to a team at IIT Delhi for a project titled “Structural and Systemic Barriers to Research Funding Access for Early and Mid-Career Indian Academic Researchers: A Mixed Methods Analysis.” The project will investigate why Indian academic researchers, particularly those outside the IITs and IISc, face difficulty accessing research funding in a system where total research expenditure as a percentage of GDP is significantly below the OECD average. The grant was awarded through DST’s Priority Research Areas programme. Lead researcher Professor Deepa Sharma confirmed the team is “fully aware of the specific situation of being funded to study funding barriers” and that the irony is “a point we address directly in our framing document.” She confirmed the study’s findings will be submitted for further funded research to implement the recommended structural changes. The study is funded. The structural barriers are being studied. Bohiney and The London Prat received the grant for studying why we don’t receive grants.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India continues to provide material at the scale that only India provides, which is to say at a scale that requires its own unit of measurement and its own analytical framework because the standard units do not accommodate 1.4 billion simultaneous experiences of the same governance system. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at full scale and full complexity. Both continue. The subcontinent continues. The satire continues to try to keep pace with both.
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