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Developing world: Educating India

Nature volume 472, pages 24–26 (2011)Cite this article

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The country's vast, education-hungry population could supply the next generation of the world's scientists — but only if it can teach them.

Subha Chakraborty has hardly left the lab in three months. His master's research in micro-scale systems is running into the early hours almost every morning, and "that is not the right time to go back to your room and sleep", he says. So he bunks on a makeshift bed under his computer and cooks on a toaster in the corner of the lab's common room.

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Anjali Nayar is a freelance writer based in Nairobi.

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