Editor’s note: The last 24 hours have been abuzz with J1 waiver through NORI (No Obligation to Return to India). As a constant viewer of CSG forum, I can vouch that Immigration issues are the most sought after topics of discussion. Everyone has their own reasons for staying back in a foreign land or return to India to pursue their careers. Generalizing the reasons may be of importance to statisticians, but migration and speciation is a universal phenomenon. The debate will continue and whether this migratory behavior of scientists leads to a speciation that affects human development across the world will be the core issue. As trained thinkers of the highest calibre, are we thinking right? Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti has nicely summed up the dilemma in the current Laapataa cartoon series. Let’s provoke some thoughts!
About the cartoonist: Sujit did his PhD from CSA (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) and joined Philips. After few years in the industry he joined IIIT Bangalore as an Assistant Professor and continues to teach there. Creator of ” Lapataa”- A fictional IISCian as he dodges through the reality of PhD. It is one of the fantastic piece of art which ClubSciWri thought needs to preserved and showed to the world and other alumni. The clips connect all of us whether it is an IIScian or a non-IIScian who did their PhD in India.
http://www.iiitb.ac.in/faculty/sujit-kumar-chakrabarti
https://sites.google.com/site/sujitkc/professional2/professional-biography
©Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti
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