(You people have bills?)
In this context, EMI means Equated Monthly Installment — a fixed monthly payment someone owes on a loan, like a home loan, car loan, education loan, or personal loan.
So the comment:
“EMI are important not PhD”
means something like: paying monthly loan bills matters more than pursuing or valuing a PhD, especially when the person needs income urgently. It is a blunt/critical way of saying “just get a job because bills have to be paid.”
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