Author Archives: Dr. Ramakanta

25 years back, I had my first car. It was white, a Maruti petrol. Today also my car is a Maruti petrol but Red. Nothing much has changed in the technology. I sit behind a steering wheel, put the ignition key and have pedals under my feet to run it. Technology are supposed to beContinue reading “Cars Gen NeXt”

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”