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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
In this collection of essays, the author traces trails of footprints from the edge of today to the precinct of yesterday. The essays are about the author's journey in the academic and professional world of engineering, as Professor, Researcher and S&T administrator. It is about SOUL, School of Upna Life, a school where knowledge is not a burden, learning is not dictation, and incoherence is heard. It is about a school where mirrors can turn into windows. It is about knowledge and ignorance. It is about happiness. It is about a dormant film-maker. It is about an antifragile city. It is about the engineering of a complete man. It is about a Renaissance Man. It is about idle conversations one has with himself.
Purnendu Ghosh
Professor Purnendu Ghosh, Executive Director of Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur has worked at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; University of Melbourne, Australia; National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany. He has taken a lead role in augmenting bioprocess engineering and biotechnological activities in the country. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and is currently its Vice President. He is the Founder President of the Biological Engineering Society and Founder Editor-in-chief of INAE Letters, a Springer-Nature publication. Besides research publications, he has written/edited several books in different genre. Professor Ghosh writes in English, Hindi and Bengali. Some of his books are: Mind Of An Engineer, Engineering Of Life And Life Technologies, Biotechnology In India, The Rising Sun, Parichit Se Parichay (in Hindi), Neural Suitcase, Ethics Of The Chair, Looking Into The Mirror, Magic Of The Morning Sun, Floating Images, Golpokotha Aar Shobder Khela (in Bengali).
