In the tradition of South Asian art, the bond between a teacher and their student is often precarious — as demonstrated recently by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds. It took her 28 months to discover a cheap alternative that is abundantly around the campus and it fetched her a prestigious grant to set up a unit for it.