India's PHD research is rubbish

“Shekhar Gupta: PHD scholars for instance, where so much depends on your supervisor. So much of India's PHD research is rubbish because you just repeat what your supervisor believes in. See this is the mind-set we have to change.

Shekhar Gupta: I will tell you, there is a PHD given in the university in U.P with the title, Hindi Sahitya mein Lotte ka Mahitve or the importance of the Lotta in Hindi literature. Somebody has passed it. We have just cheapened our research, our PHDs, our higher education.”