The Book of Life

Lions and wolves may be defeated with bullets—but human beings can be won over with nothing more than a shower of kindness. It’s so easy to win hearts. Yet, the foolish turn this simplest task into the hardest. APPLYING THE BRAIN S ir C. V. Raman (1888-1970), the well-known Indian scientist, was born in Tiruchirapally and died in Bangalore. Besides being Director of the Raman Research Institute, he held many prestigious academic posts. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1930. Raman believed that science came from the brain and not from equipment. When one of his pupils in Spectroscopy complained that he had only a 1 KW lamp, whereas his competitor abroad had a 10 KW lamp, Raman told him: ‘Don’t worry. Put a 10 KW brain to the problem.’ (Sunday Review, March 17, 1991). This is wholly true. Everything in this world depends on the brain. A lack of equipment can be compensated for by the brain, but no amount of equipment can ever compensate for a lack of brain power. None of the scientists born two to three hundred years before in the west had access to the superior equipment