A confident state of mind

“Unlike the prevalent opinion, I think PhD helped me get a life. My personal life had been traumatic; through PhD, I managed to get distracted and focus on the work at hand.

Throughout my academic journey, I have had low self-esteem. Having studied in a purely Bengali medium school, I always felt I wasn’t good in English; I thought everyone around me was right and I was the only one wrong! Of course, it wasn’t true…