Dr. Paramita Palit
Research Associate, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), E-mail: dr.paramita.palit@gmail.com
When a good old friend of mine has requested me to write anything for you related to science, I feel a bit nervous and a huge embarrassment beckoned on my pen.. What the hell I would tell you guys the Gennext, a fer intelligent evolutionary well ahead than their ancestral species, who still stumble with their speed in keypad to ipad..In this facebookian age of man, anything under this sky (even, beyond this sky) can be goggled and you get an wikipedian expertise on that!! Even just like the periodic news highlights, there are science in a week highlights available with a million Likes and comments in different websites...now showing off my smartness only because I have two weary and often confusive alphabates before my name (Oh sorry!! Aren't u a doctor??), will only raise your boredom rather IQ (not Intelligence, Irritating Quotient, we should have one, ha?). So its better to share some giggling moments of my a bit different career option and rather a bit weird passion of doing science.
When I was a student of class six, and used to crave for being older, once I have uttered in "my aim of life" conversation class that, I want to become a scientist..reason is that Doctors and engineers are often among the widely chosen options, there's nothing new to say for which I would catch the attention of my class, with a minus eight powered specs you can't be an airhostess or a model otherwise (why to ask friends to pull legs..)..so I have chosen to be a Scientist.
Whoever said, Morning shows day sometimes get the credit because probability of coincidence is often very high in our life..being a chatterbox of my school, after grabbing a number of prizes in debates and extempore, my serious choice of career was to be a RJ!! I always preferred literature over science and language classes over mathematics..but at the end of the day I am here with just RE- SEARCHING!!
Then I felt something very serious..what the hell logic you can build up in this age of dollers and donations where every career options are open just like a multicuisine restaurant to replenish the satiety of your mind and soul, why should a youngster will indulge him or herself in science? Although money can't be the best thing in life but its also wise to cry sitting on a BMW!! I am sure, my young smart reader is grinning after reading..Ma'am come to the point.. Why science, often a less rewarded career, and with an instant heightened blood pressure every night..well, I don't need to say much..just go through the "Ph.D jokes" pages, you can get the rest of my words..
Well, its nevertheless to say, most of the hypes are true, its true I regularly skip my prior apps to my friends because of an unexpected delay in experiment, my Green signalled status updates necessarily does not prove that I am sitting at the desk..and there are a hell lot list of" not doings, sacrifices" that will surely scare you..