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Coming home

Nature volume 436, pages 488–489 (2005)Cite this article

Reagents may be slow to arrive, but the freedom to explore his own research interests more than compensates. Satyajit Mayor is thriving in India.

Like most expatriates who long to return home, I had planned for many years to return to India — but I kept putting it off. I worried that my career in India would become marked by obscurantist science, an ossified research set-up and cash-strapped institutes; that I would be surrounded by mediocre science and scientists; and that I would have to wait for weeks for supplies that can be in summoned in New York within a day.

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