Dr. Ramakanta

The Stone Soup.

A parable of sharing. Deprivation brings out the worst in humans. We have a tendency to hoard in times of deprivation. When resources are scarce, we pull back and put all of our energy into self-preservation. Nobody is richer in the process. Here is a story. ” A traveler came into a town beset byContinue reading “The Stone Soup.”

Evolution of intelligence.

It won’t be long before intelligent machines begin to argue that, since they were created from human intelligence, they too are human About 15 billion years ago, the universe was born. It was a whopping hundred million trillion trillion degrees hot. As it cooled down and solidified, gravity developed. At 10 billion years ago, QuarksContinue reading “Evolution of intelligence.”

The P&G story

“It Floats”. Adversity is our best friend. It gives us the opportunity to innovate and break away from the pack. William Procter was a candle maker. When a soap maker named John Gamble joined him, both of them set up a soap factory in Cincinnati by the river Ohio. It was the right move. ThomasContinue reading “The P&G story”

Pill to Kill disease

Agent, Host and Environment. Hardly a century ago, we used to go for a change of air for chronic diseases like Tuberculosis or die from simple infections of wounds at home. This has given rise to the era of Sanatoriums and Nursing Homes at hill stations. In Railways we are still issuing Change of airContinue reading “Pill to Kill disease”

Pollock Krasner story

Abstract painter and collage artist Lee Krasner was born in 1908 and had the misfortune of graduating in the midst of the Great Depression of 1930. She had to take whatever job she could find, including modeling and waitressing to support herself. But she didn’t give up her dream of making it as a full-timeContinue reading “Pollock Krasner story”