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