Monthly Archives: October 2019

These were difficult times for Indians, especially ambitious young Indians like Dipak. In 1955, Professor Lionel Robbins was the chairman of the BSc (Econ) examination committee of LSE. He was very old-fashioned, almost pompous, conservative to the core. The rumor is that he did not like Indians very much and was not in favour ofContinue reading “Dipak Banerjee”

Why Bill Clinton is alive & Steve Jobs is not ? It depends how do you select your surgeon and Hospital. Assuming you are sufficiently rich and powerful how do you hire the best finder to find the best ? As per information available in public domain: Steve Jobs was diagnosed with Pancreatic tumour andContinue reading “How do you select your Surgeon ?”

Li-ion battery gets the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry. … I am writing this post using one Li-ion battery and you are reading them with one Li-ion battery in your Mobile or Laptop. Elon Musk drives his Electric Car with another Li-ion battery. The future of earth depends on Li-ion battery. Surprisingly, the Li-ion cellsContinue reading “2019 Chemistry Nobel”

In the 1990s, Semenza identified genes that turned on, when oxygen levels were low to increase levels of erythropoietin (EPO), a protein that increases the oxygen carrying RBCs in blood. Of course, his paper was rejected from numerous top journals. “They didn’t find it to be of sufficient interest to warrant publication,” Semenza said. …Continue reading “2019 Nobel for Medicine”

We all have hidden treasures we don’t know. All we need is to bring them to surface and use them to our advantage. A 10-year old boy decided to learn judo, despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judoContinue reading “Yes, You Can”