“Would you ever be with us both physically and mentally?” “Specifically, with me?” She debunks all my excuses that: I left my dream career option in USA and returned to India to take care of my family. I left a …
Are we staring at a third world war? Are we at the beginning of a new world order? Where will the current international situation ultimately lead us? Can we afford a global conflict when we are just recovering from …
Chitradurga22 Feb 2022 A colleague of mine wrote to me, “Prahlad, I was in the gulf for a long time and now returned home for good. There was no opportunity to learn there. Can I learn now? That too at …
Bend it like Nolan, Part -4. Why do we need innovative learning methods? The truth is no matter how successful surgeons we become, there is always another level or something we haven’t learned or mastered. This is more so …
Bend it like Nolan – Part 3 I am still under the spell of Christopher’s Nolan’s Inception. A powerful dialogue by the protagonist COBB has smitten me. That is, “The seed of the idea we plant will grow in this …
Bend it like Nolan – Part 2 Scene: A ROADSIDE CAFE IN PARIS. COBB: They say we only use a fraction of the true potential of our brains… but they’re talking about when we’re awake. While we dream, the mind …
Dear all, Thank you very much for your thought-provoking feedback on my blogs and academic programs. I am pondering over three significant responses I have received. One, “we do pre-surgical planning. Isn’t it equal to storyboarding?” Yes, it is …
I have this condition.– A condition? – It’s my memory.– Amnesia? – No, no, it’s different from that.I have no short-term memory. I know all about myself, I just…Since my injury, I can’t make new memories. Everything fades.If we talk …
A forerunner poet, Pampa, from the pre-Shakespearan era of Karnataka, wrote this beautiful poem: ಚಾಗದ ಭೋಗದಕ್ಕರದ ಗೇಯದ ಗೊಟ್ಟಿಯಲಂಪಿ ನಿಂಪುಗ ಳ್ಗಾರವಾದ ಮಾನಿಸರೆ ಮಾನಿಸರಂತವರಾಗಿ ಪುಟ್ಟಲೇ ನಾಗಿಯುಮೇನೊ ತೀರ್ದಪುದೇ ತೀರದೊಡಂ ಮರಿದುಂಬಿಯಾಗಿ ಮೇಣ್ ಕೋಗಿಲೆಯಾಗಿ ಪುಟ್ಟುವುದು ನಂದನದೊಳ್ ಬನವಾಸಿ ದೇಶದೊಳ್…. It means, even if I am stabbed …
To begin with, I wish you all a Happy and Prosperous Makara Sankranti. “You have deeper talent there. But, there’s a difference between talent and skill. Talent comes from God—you’re born with it. Skill comes from sweat and practice, and …