Keeping it playful

“Being from a small town, PhD as a career option, especially in subjects like Physics or Mathematics, was not very common. Many told me that geology instead had good career prospects and hence I decided to pursue it for further studies. After my Master’s in Earth Sciences at IIT Kharagpur, I took up a job at Hindustan Zinc Limited to help pay off the education loan I had taken. Those eight months that I spent working were perhaps the most frustrating time…