As a Ph.D. student (at IIT and ISI Delhi)

• As a Ph.D. student (at IIT and ISI Delhi)

• I protested plagiarism by my guide.

• I was hounded for the next 30 years.

• (A student who helped him got the Young Scientist award, Bhatnagar award etc.)

• Lesson: it pays to be unethical, and hurts to be ethical.