Dr. Ramakanta

The Learning Zone

To my son (Today starts his first CBSE paper : English) We are standing in front of the gate of KV-4, the center for CBSE examination of my son. There was a long queue in front of us. So I recounted the story of Demosthenes as we were taught in our primary classes 4 decadesContinue reading “The Learning Zone”

The Spanish Flu (1918-1919)

( Another Pandemic, another memory ) History repeats itself because man makes the same mistakes. Exactly 100 years back, in a March afternoon in 1917, an American doctor in Texas noticed that people were dying from a new disease. A deadly flu was rapidly spreading. But nobody would listen to him. He was silenced byContinue reading “The Spanish Flu (1918-1919)”

The Fall of Hubei

The Fall of the Incas. Incas of Peru were a great civilization. In fact they were the greatest empire of the sixteenth century world. They had an army of 80,000. In 1525, they had an unusual visitor. It was only a small group of Spanish explorer. But one of the Spaniard was infected with smallContinue reading “The Fall of Hubei”

A letter for my Son…

Today is the last day of my son’s matric board exam.On the way to drop him at his school ( last day in this almamater) I asked him, ” what do you want to study in future?”His mother wants him to be an engineer. Because one of his cousin has just completed BE & hasContinue reading “A letter for my Son…”

The story of coffee mugs.

( Stories Retold ) A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. All of them have a lot of things in common- their school, background, success, wealth, power, position and a lot of stress and poor life quality. The professor went inside the kitchen and returnedContinue reading “The story of coffee mugs.”