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‘Writing is not a Talent to be coveted, It is a Skill to be cultivated.’ Dr Adam grant Yesterday I read an interesting book written by Meghana pant on, ‘ How to get Published in India .’ The book is really informative and is useful to a new writer like me. On writing, Meghana is clear, writer should be disciplined and persevering. By disciplined she meant, the writer should fix a certain number of words (say 1000) which she will be writing in a day, no matter what. With great disciplined the writer, will write her pre determined number of words on that day, on next day, a day after and after, for everyday. That’s the kind of discipline required if you want to be a writer. Writing is an arduous job. It requires lots of perseverance . Meaning, no matter what, you should sit down in front of your computer and start typing. You should follow this routine of writing 1000 words daily with Grit . Each day 1000 words, no matter what. So, if you follow this 1000 words a day routine,...

By profession I am a professor. A professor of Pharmacy. And I have the privilege to teach the most advanced and recent generation, the Gen Z . I teach in a metro city, probably New York of India, in Mumbai . And I am fortunate enough to teach in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) field. I love teaching my subject Pharmaceutical Chemistry or Medicinal chemistry. It deals with the science and art of medicines as molecules. drug molecules are chemicals which treats the diseases. This sounds cool, but when it comes to teaching the science of drug molecules to students it's not less than climbing Mt. Everest. Teaching chemistry of drugs is an arduous task and demands lots of patience. The same is implied for learning the chemistry of drugs, it requires lots of hard work from students point of view. It's being estimated that for each hour attended in institute of chemistry lecture, minimum 3 hours of work is required at home. I teach medicinal ch...

So, here I am writing after a long time. It's dussera in India and we are worshiping goddess Durga. The form of energy or shakti. We have holiday for this magnificent festival in India. I was at home and practically free for the entire day. We Gujaratis celebrate dussera by eating Fafda and Jalebi. So, yes we did feasted on this special occasion and had mouth watering jalebis. In the evening I watched a wonderful movie called ' Kahaani ', acted by Vidhya Balan and directed by Sujoy Ghosh, Written by Sujoy Ghosh and Advaita Kala. A quick Wikipedia search revels that it's production cost was just Rs. 8 Cr. It's surprising that the movie was produced in such a low budget. Wiki also says it earned more than Rs. 100 Cr. Now, that's an astonishing achievement for team Kahaani. The movie is all about a female protagonist who is in search of her missing husband. It's a story of courage and strength and it revels the never say die attitude of us human. It...