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NEP’s Research Rush: Serving Up Knowledge or Just Half‑Baked Papers?

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The 2 AM Club You Never Asked to Join It’s 2:17 AM on a T uesday. You have 17 tabs open. One is a half-loaded PDF on “Quantitative Analysis Methods”, another is a YouTube tutorial on “How to NOT plagiarise”, and the third, most important one, is “deciding between ordering Chilli Paneer or Chilli Potato”. Welcome. You’ve just been inducted into the “Mandatory Research Scholar’s Club,” courtesy of the NEP. The membership fee? Your sleep schedule and your sanity. This isn’t just a funny anecdote—it’s the lived reality of thousands of students who are juggling deadlines, clueless guidance, and a policy that promised transformation but often delivers exhaustion. The Dream vs. The Reality: The Michelin Star Ambition Let’s be fair. The idea behind making research a cornerstone of the NEP was Michelin-star worthy. The vision was to transform us from syllabus-guzzling robots into innovative thinkers. We were supposed to be the next generation of problem-solvers, discovering cures, and writing ...

When a Deal is Too Good: Is the Seller's Quality a Lie?

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Post-sorting for ‘Price: low to high ’ , are we concerned about the seller of the products on E-commerce websites? Let’s roll over the authenticity of the products we are buying from the giant e-commerce leader. INTRODUCTION:   Although retailers like US Giant Walmart owned Flipkart and Amazon state that they do follow several processes to authenticate the veracity of the sellers they are listing on their platforms, we have come across the news headlined “Amazon, Flipkart found to have violated Indian quality control rules during warehouse raids” very recently. On 19 th of March this year, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) conducted a raid on the warehouses of these giants in the Tiruvallur district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to find out that firms had violated rules by storing, selling and exhibiting products that did not carry the BIS standard mark. This BIS raid was followed by similar scrutiny searches on 27 th March 2025 by state-run product certification ...