[Aeolun]

> You do not become a tenured faculty, let alone an associate professor, at Harvard's FAS if you have no research background.

This is not something someone without a research background would know.

[ghaff]

I'd absolutely expect an experienced American journalist to have a pretty good idea of how academia operates in the US. I do and I don't have a research background. I have no idea though how things operate in India.