After loss in election, TMC is trying theor best to funnel into CJP wave to get back something. They know people hate them at ground level so they are trying to amass sympathy online by trying to be anti BJP
It is now pretty clear all TMC supportes are running to CJP. Mo etary incentive from bangladesh or pakistan is also plausible.
For my PhD I foolishly got into a nanotechnology lab with only internship experience, my major field being inorganic chemistry. It was really stressful to learn most things from scratch, and not having any intuition regarding this type of work made it worse. I couldn't use most of my training like synthetic design or prediction of reactions at all, and the approach was more like engineering, based on more practical device-level problem solving rather than understanding reaction mechanisms.
So as a result my project stalled, and I was getting increasingly apathetic and not going to the lab. I totally lost my dream of joining academia and couldn't even think of industry, as doing this work for life filled me with dread.
After 1.5 years I was advised by my PI to convert to a master's.
I thought my dream of a PhD was over. Being an international student, I knew that student visa restrictions were increasing worldwide, and also I probably would need to take a year gap as this decision was made mid academic year and the application window for US schools was over.
I even started doubting myself a lot, thinking if I should just quit, whether I would be able to complete the master's as well with the state I was in. I was afraid no one would accept a student who had to change to a master's from a PhD.
Stories online on Reddit, YouTube, etc. of people quitting after moving to a master's, quitting PhD midway, depressed me even more.
However, I stuck to it and completed my master's thesis. Then I reached out to our department head and grad school and found out I could still do a PhD if a new PI agreed to fund me. I was skeptical because I was really down at that time, thinking "who would spend their money on me?" I still took a shot and talked with professors in inorganic chemistry. The first PI I talked with agreed to fund me and take me in. The work was really interesting and also matched my training and interests.
And after a lot of paperwork and a lot of anxiety attacks, I am now admitted to a PhD again.
Just goes to show, life is sometimes less depressing than we think it to be.