As I leave IIPHG
My engaging and fascinating journey of fifteen years and two months with IIPHG will come to an end on 31 October 2023. This engagement gave me a lot; I joined here as a young, restless, and slightly egoist researcher and I am leaving as a much wiser, calmer, humbler, and mellowed professor with very high hopes for self and others. IIPHG enabled diverse opportunities for collaborative research through which I could learn a variety of skills and develop invaluable insights about self, society, system, and science. I could finish my PhD here, which gave me a huge academic and professional relief. I cannot thank Prof Satia and Mavalankar enough who as directors kept pushing me to get my PhD out of my way of career progression. Apart from this, IIPHG gave me the freedom to explore themes, methods, and approaches to study and reach out to diverse populations through research and teaching. Therefore, I could widen my horizons to include many themes and...