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Three weeks ago, I encountered an accident. A serious accident which I thought could have broke my leg . However, to my surprise, my Orthopaedic doctor, after examining the affected area and taking few X-Rays (You know kind of Front View, Side view, Top view) said, its not a fracture but a serious ligament tear. Now, I was happy that it was not a facture, at the same time I was sad, because doc said you have to plaster your leg with glass fiber for additional support, and complete bed rest for 3 weeks. Three weeks without my loving students is anything but pleasant (I am a professor at Mumbai University, India). I had no choice, I got my foot plastered and travelled 40 kms in Uber and arrived at my parents home for taking rest. I packed my   paperback books, my iPad, my Kindle and my iPhone, to accompany me for 3 weeks. I grabbed the opportunity of living for 3 weeks without any physical heavy activities and utilized this time for effective reading. I am an avi...

The big pile of books, equally big pile of documents and my huge files along with my HP all in one, all these on a working desk of a standard office table. The stuffs were overloaded, the office table was screaming at me, “Remove the unwanted stuffs.” I was deft to the tables screams and just overlooked the untidy work space for almost a month, a whooping month! To tell you the truth, I am a Pharmaceutical person, means, I love clean and tidy place. From my college days I have been taught about the importance of organized and well-arranged things. I am following this practice of well organized behaviour past 2 decades. Yes, I cleared my college degree 20 years back and am still surviving! However, for past one month I was very busy. Now, that’s the truth, I am overloaded with my teaching duties as a professor at the university and also managing my reading passion and my writing endeavour. This chaos of overwork made my office desk overloaded. It was clumsy, unprofessio...

Learning is a central part of any human success. We human have learned infinite things since the appearance of our ancestors around 200K years before. We as a species has learned to communicate, to use language, to farm, to built cities and very recently to build human babies (genetic engineering). What makes us to learn? Well, at the outer level, it's our desire to do something valuable and useful. However, we learn because we want to achieve something invaluable as well. And it would be appropriate to state that, 'learning is as important to our survival as food.' Now the question aries, "How do we learn?" Well, that is what this blog is all about. Learning, at its core is building myelin on our neurons (the brain cells). We all know that our neurons fire an electric signal at each other. This firing of neurons is in a systematic way and it's in a circuit. Here is where our learning comes into picture. When we say, 'we are learning something...