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Why Play?

This note is based on newspaper cuts from an interview of Indian ace badminton player Aparna Popat. She expresses a basic doubt that could cross the mind of practitioner of any similar discipline. That could include workers in science, sports; or in general anyone who, even at times, feels is caught in a rut.

While the context here is that of badminton, the "place of being" from where Aparna asks following question is quite universal and could be easily connected to. "What do we do in this game? We just seem to be hitting the shuttle again and again for 10 or 15 years!" Essentially asking, Why play?

Almost as an answer to question Aparna says, "No two strokes are ever the same; no two points are ever the same. You are constantly playing mind games with the opponent and that's the fun of it. Otherwise, it would be very boring."

Ganesh Bagler (20 January 2004; CCMB Diary Notes)

Ask me

Ask me not where all I've been,

Ask me where do I come from;

Ask me not what all I've seen,

Ask me what I hold within.

—Ganesh Bagler

Protein Contact Networks: workbook snaps

Couple of snaps from my PhD workbook.

These notes reflect efforts at comprehending the role of non-covalent interactions for the kinetics and function of globular proteins. I toyed with the contact map, long and short-range interactions etc. (published) and few other topology-based metrices (depicted above; unpublished). [2005—2006; CCMB]

My Sculpture: A Ganesha

I tried my hand at sculpting, without any formal training. While at CCMB, in my grad-school days, I molded this Ganesha from mud. I wasn't sure which form did this Ganesha belong to! Elephantine!? yeah, almost. :)

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