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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Our stories, however simple, are, after all, our stories. We like to share our hopes and sorrows with others. We often forget what happened yesterday but can recall the exact details of what happened 50 years ago. Sometimes, our forgetfulness is deliberate. We often ‘edit’ or ‘rewrite’ our memory, unknowingly or unconsciously. Our memories are a collage of the old and the new. Our memories are fragile. The only way to freeze a memory is to put it in a story. I evolved from abecedarian to doctoral ignorance. From a professor I became a schoolmaster. I have tried to understand the need for balance and the necessity of imbalance. Optimum optimism has the elixir of life. Perhaps, we reach destinations that were destined for us. Perhaps, freewill helps us to reach our destined destinations. Often, we do thought experiments with no endpoint in sight. Life is not fortuitous, nor a planned chain of events. We come with a closed fist to acquire everything. We go with an open fist leaving everything.
Purnendu Ghosh
Professor Purnendu Ghosh is the Executive Director of Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur. Prior to this he was Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has also worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, National Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany, and the University of Melbourne Australia. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and currently its Vice President. Professor Ghosh has written several books in both technical and non-technical genres. He has been writing columns regularly for the newspapers and periodicals. He is the Founder Editor in Chief of INAE’s publications on engineering sciences. Some of his recent books include Biotechnology in India, Mind of an engineer, Engineering of life and life technologies, Neural suitcase, School of upna life, Thought islands and poetry bridges, The rising sun, Ethics of the chair.
