Posts tagged "knowledge"
Passion, Pain, and Possibility

Passion, Pain, and Possibility

The year was 1994. Specky, my wife, came in and said, ‘I’ve won the scholarship.’ That’s it. Nothing more. But I didn’t need any more information. I knew exactly what she meant. She had just been awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship to go and get her DPhil from the UK. So this is how I got...
Knowledge Is Great

Knowledge Is Great

This set of couplets and stanzas is a part of my twitter poetry for #KnowledgeIsGreat Every couplet/stanza fits in a 140 character tweet.   [1] Answers are everywhere here I see them when I’m ready, dear! [2] I know that I know is what I know But I know more if I don’t show! [3]...

Learning from the parking-lot

Remember that parking-incident that I quoted in the previous issue? Let me describe it again… “A very interesting thing happened as I was walking towards Gulab Bhavan this morning. There was an office-goer parking his motor-bike on the stand. After the bike was parked, he noticed that it was jutting ahead of the line of...

Pleasure and education travel together!

Sarve bhavantu sukhina,sarve santu niramayah ! Sarve bhadradi pashyantu,maa kashchid dukh bhag bhavatu !! Every student must remember that refining the educated self is the greatest pleasure and is one that stays for a long time. Thus the definition of pleasure has changed dramatically. When we are not delighted with situations that hold great importance...