Plight of Research Scholars: India’s Silent Intellectual Crisis

Dr Vishal Gupta vishalm.com85@gmail.com In India’s rapidly expanding higher education landscape, where universities proudly speak of innovation, rankings, and global competitiveness, a quiet crisis unfolds in laboratories, libraries, and department corridors. It is the crisis faced by research scholars-the very people responsible for producing the knowledge that universities claim to champion. Their struggles are rarely acknowledged in public discussions, but they reveal deep cracks in the country’s academic foundation. From financial instability and academic pressure to mental health challenges and severe job insecurity, the life of an Indian research scholar is marked far more by survival than by scholarly exploration….