I can still hear the battering noise of the monsoon rain. Often I count all my bones to ensure they survived the rocking jeep ride on a rickety uphill road. I was wearing a waterproof dress, but I was drenched with sweat inside. Dark clouds, tropical jungle,…
Read moreTo 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…
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What was your most embarrassing moment? Imagine being away from home, stuck in an emergency, your smartphone dead due to low charge, and you can’t remember your wife’s mobile number! I found myself in such a situation once. Another time, our senior…
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When I struggled with temporal bone radiology, a great quote by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman came to my rescue: “If you can’t explain something to a first-year student, then you haven’t really understood it.” This quote guided me to simplify…
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I have a desire to get MRI studies of the brains of Dr. Vijayendra, Dr. Jain, or Dr. Janaki to assess the size of their hippocampi! Eleanor Maguire, a neuroscientist at University College London, published a fascinating study, “Navigation-related structural…
Read moreI picked up two key learning strategies as an NCC cadet during the pre-university course: deconstruction and deliberate practice. Daily running with a 12 kg backpack and a .303 rifle with a bayonet in hand, drenched in sweat in chilly winter, in hilly terrain,…
Read moreMastery in any field demands the three Ps: practice, persistence, and patience, coupled with an enormous degree of the three Ds: devotion, discipline, and drilling (training). Swami Sivananda once said, “The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph….
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The last time I was driven to the edge of my seat was when I watched the movies “Uri – The Surgical Strike,” “Mission Mangal,” and “Tanhaji.” I am not fond of Bollywood movies, but these were rare exceptions. They were some of the very few movies…
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