News Magazine -2009 - Chemical Engineering Department - IISc

The story of a young researcherYoung researcher comes to IISc. His starting days :His Views: Hey, I am glad to do research in this premier institute.I will be great one day and do well to the citizens of my everlovingmotherland “INDIA”.Friend: Hey!!! Where are you from? Where have you done your masters?Researcher: From a university.Friend: The voice of Hey changes to Ho…… (In his friend’s mind howhe could come to IISc)Researcher: Questions arise in his mind by seeing his friend’sconvoluted face. Am I eligible to do Ph.D.? The first answer comesto the mind “Yes I can, why not? I cleared the interview in front ofhighly intellectual professors” I must be positive, researcherreminiscence the words of great man Abdul Kalam ‘I can do, we cando’.Course work: The other students of the class were from differentpremier institutes. Classes started and the young researcher was notup to the mark. His colleagues started vibrantly interacting in theclass. The allegiance researcher questioned once again “Can I do”?“Yes” comes the answer after studying the article ‘Life of youthicon at the age of sixty… Amitabh Bachchan’.Family: “At the age of twenty eight what are you doing man? Is ittime for doing your research? Your father is going to retire? Whydon’t you go for job? Why don’t you settle in life? See yourchildhood friends are earning money and they are well settled, whatare you going to do with your research?”Researcher: “Oh my god? Whom do I have to remember now? AmitabhBachchan or Abdul Kalam. I have to do something. Let me do research,first concentrate on the work which I came for.”After finishing the course work, he accessed himself, what he hasachieved so far. He came to know that the things which he usually9