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doi:10.1038/nindia.2008.262; Published online 23 August 2008

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Indian post-docs for India

Indian graduate students are multitasking geniuses - they do everything from logistic updates to ordering reagents and repairing instruments when in the lab. But for their post-docs they chose Stanford or MIT with a Noble laureate mentor. Kangkan Halder, a post-doc himself, probes deeper into the minds of his peers to rationalise these dilemmas.

Almost all Indian graduate students look for a post-doc position abroad as soon as the thesis is submitted. The reasons could be many — better money, the 'foreign-returned' tag or greener career pastures.

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