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 BEContinue reading “A letter for my Son”
Category Archives: Biography
Dumb stuff that smart people do.
Economics assumes that people are on the average rational. But Richard H Thaler didn’t agree. He would joke, “As far as economics is concerned, even smartest people used to commit the dumbest stuff. They go on making the same mistake on and on. People are always predictably, consistently irrational.” He had a lotContinue reading “Dumb stuff that smart people do.”
The Procrastinator
(Leonard of the town of Vinci.) “I always find uncanny similarities between the life and works of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Jobs.” Ramakanta Mahapatra It was 1476. He was 25, young and handsome but was also facing a trial that will put him in jail for sure in the Florence town of Italy. There’sContinue reading “The Procrastinator”
Three Loans
How much compensation can be granted to someone who offers his flesh and blood for your education? As I reach the twilight of my medical career and look back fondly, my eyes moisten at the three loans that have made me a doctor. Three unpaid loans that I shall carry into my grave. 10 yearsContinue reading “Three Loans”
The Humanoid – IV
Odisha Sarkar appoints me
Dr Ramakanta's Ideas 