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India produces smart scientists but is struggling to retain them

India produces smart scientists but is struggling to retain them


Representative image of the Tata Instityte of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. India is spending a historically unprecedented, but otherwise still insufficient, amount of money on scientific research.

Representative image of the Tata Instityte of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. India is spending a historically unprecedented, but otherwise still insufficient, amount of money on scientific research.
| Photo Credit: TIFR/Special arrangement

Recent reports of nearly 120 scientists resigning from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have rightly raised concerns. ISRO has been a symbol of India’s scientific aspirations and such an exodus cannot be dismissed as an ordinary episode of employee turnover.

Resignations have occurred over the years but the scale of recent departures confronts us with the question: of why some of India’s brighter scientific minds are electing to leave institutions millions dream of joining.

Published – August 03, 2026 09:00 am IST

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