Inspired...
Once in a while a day comes...a special day. It was today for me. Raghunath Mashelkar came to my college. Who is he? He is a motha manoos as we say in Marathi. How big? He holds twenty nine doctorates. He was the director of csir for 12 yrs or so. He is the scientific advisor to the prime minister of India. He is a fellow of the royal society. I don’t remember other details but he has a terrific personality for a sixty five year oldie. He came, he captured. He inspired nearly a thousand in an hour and left in awe still more. It was his knowledge and way of putting forward ideas that captured everyone's mind. He literally left the audience spellbound. He kept stressing over and over again that the future lied in the youth of the world. And that came from a man who himself is sixty five years old. He is a proud Indian, he said. Oh yes, he is. He fought for turmeric and neem patents for the country. But that did not ma